This is our post-abortion tract. We place it inside all of our pre-abortion packets because;
a) most of the women we meet are dead-set on slaying their child & will do it in spite of our offers of help
b) 1/2 the aborting women have already killed at least one baby
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Killing a Baby By Abortion is a Serious Sin
You have not only sinned against the baby – but even worse – you have sinned against God! Although you knew His command: “You shall not murder” you defied Him. You willfully broke His Law. Be certain of this: All murderers have their place in the lake of fire.
Your child was unique and incredible and precious. The Bible clearly reveals that God is the One who created your baby. In fact, in Jeremiah 1:5 God says: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.” There is no such thing as an unwanted child, only unwanting adults. You could have found wanting adults through a local adoption agency. You could have chosen a loving adoptive family to raise that baby. Instead you paid the abortionist to kill your own flesh and blood.
Let me ask you something: Who are you to be the judge and executioner of your infant? If you have a normal functioning conscience, you know that you are guilty of a terrible, evil deed. You should be ashamed of yourself. Your conscience should be accusing and convicting you of the murder of your infant. If you do not have a guilty conscience, be afraid. It is a sign that your conscience is seared – a very dangerous condition.
You must repent.
Do not make excuses and justifications for your sin. Just because abortion is legal, doesn’t make it right. Slavery and lynching of blacks was once legal - but was it right? Slaughtering Jews was once legal – was it ever right?
You may have sinned by fornication in conceiving this child outside marriage in the first place. When do two wrongs make a right? Sexual immorality is a sin against God. Why did you add to this lawlessness and rebellion by murdering the tiny baby?
If you say you aborted because you have money issues, face it, you paid for abortion while adoption would have been free for you.
You may have been a victim of rape or incest. What that wretched man did to you was wrong. You became his victim, but, dear reader, he stopped short of killing you. He left you alive. You didn’t stop. You murdered your victim in cold blood. In the eyes of God that makes you worse than your rapist. You did not have to kill her. While it is understandable that you might not have the desire to raise your baby, a loving couple would have adopted your child and cherished your little boy or girl forever.
If you were offered help through your pregnancy by Christians outside the abortuary, God sent them to you as His trustworthy friends. You should have accepted their sincere friendship. They were divine gifts to you and your baby.
The truth is you cannot make up for what you did to your baby. You cannot apologize to your child. Your dead son or daughter cannot forgive you. She was dismembered or delivered inside the abortuary. She was treated like medical waste and disposed of by strangers. So, your child is dead. It’s too late to make amends to your baby, but God is here. He is waiting.
You must repent.
What does it mean to repent?
Genuine repentance is more than simply “feeling sorry” for what you have been through. God requires more than asking Him to forgive you. In order for your repentance to be accepted you are commanded by God to:
• Acknowledge all of your horrible sins before God
• Beg for His mercy and forgiveness through the only One who can save you from eternal wrath and punishment, Jesus Christ.
• Turn from all of your wicked deeds and sin no more.
• Prove your repentance. Do everything in your power to prevent others from committing the sin of abortion against their innocent babies.
If you believe that you are prepared to truly repent, you are invited to plead for mercy and forgiveness before God’s throne by faith. This can only be accomplished if your eyes are open to the truth, which is a work of God in itself. Jesus is the only One who can forgive you. His forgiveness is based upon the Lord’s divine provision of Christ’s death as a substitute for your eternal punishment and death. If you are genuinely repentant you must trust the substitutionary punishment for guilty sinners that fell on the sinless sacrifice, Jesus Christ. There is no other way for a healthy conscience to have its guilt and sin removed. You must come God’s way, by repentance and faith in Christ’s pardoning and cleansing Blood as a token of true justice and righteous penalty for sin.
Your only hope is in Jesus Christ. Without Christ and His forgiveness you are doomed. Unless you repent you will perish in your sin. You will only be a fugitive from justice while you live. When you die, you will be judged guilty and condemned to hell for what you did to your baby and all the other ways that you transgressed God’s Laws.
Do not make excuses for committing murder by abortion. Do not defend yourself for what you did to your helpless baby and against God. Do not seek to make yourself “feel better”. Do not try to override your conscience. It is no use trying to forgive yourself. You have no authority to forgive sin and neither does anyone else except the One who gave you your baby--- God Himself. Do what God commands of you today. Do not delay. Your only hope is to repent and believe the gospel. Repent and bring forth good works that reveal your heart and soul’s true sorrow over your sin.
Ask the person who gave you this tract to give you a Gospel of John so that you can search the scriptures to see if these things be true. Read it every day and obey what you read. That same person can also help you find a way to help other women like yourself. Don’t wait any longer. Today counts for forever.
Murder: Exodus 20:13 Murderers: Revelation 21:8
Conscience John 8:9, Acts 24:16, seared; I Tim 4:2, Heb 10:22
Without excuse: Romans 1:20 John 15:22, Heb 10:22
Born Again: John 3:3, Acts 2:38; 17:30
Repent, repentance: Matt 3:2, Luke 13:3, 2 Tim 2:25, 2 Cor 7:10, 2 Pet 3:9, Acts 2:38
Gospel: Eph 1:13, Col 1:23
Too late for repentance: Heb 12:17
Sin no more: Proverbs 3:7
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Is it a sin of omission to refuse to go your local abortion clinic to try & keep babies from slaughter?
I have often wondered how so many in the visible church, who profess to be pro-life, are able to justify NEVER having gone to an abortion clinic to attempt to intervene to save a baby from being dismembered or born alive into a toilet. If someone knew that their own child was going to be decapitated or deliberately drowned at a certain place & time, wouldn't it be considered depraved indifference to do nothing to intervene? If we discovered that our neighbor knew that a man planned to creep into our window and rape us and did nothing to warn us or to prevent our harm, what would we believe about that neighbor? Would it be sin for them to stand by? Isn't silence an implication of consent? If we knew that a little infant at a particular address was going to be offered up in a bloody ritual sacrifice to Satan at 9am on Saturday, would it be sin for us to go about our business and allow the abominable torture of that child?
If anyone honestly and truly believes that when a baby is murdered by abortion through all nine months of pregnancy that it is the murder of that wee human being, what exactly would stop them from physically trying to save the imperiled infants in their community? How is it loving our neighbor if we keep passing by on the other side of the road, bible tucked under our arm, hurrying on our way to another Christian retreat or conference or even a pro-life 'event'? How does our neglect of the innocents & their lost mothers show them that we love them as we love ourselves?
Although many people have accused me of caring too much about the babies being murdered by abortion, I have to wonder, don't they ever think that maybe, just maybe, they care too little?
I have taken the liberty to gather some thoughts & scriptures & commentaries on a few biblical themes that I believe come into play when we consider whether or not it is SIN to fail to physically intervene for the little orphans who are being murdered by their mothers and the ones whom she hires. Below you will find notes on the Sin of Omission, failing to meet the need of a neighbor who is known to be in dire distress, refusing to love strangers, etc. I would like to ask the reader to continually keep in mind that poor little voiceless babies are being led to unspeakably painful deaths seven days a week in NINE killing times at Orlando Women's Center (www.womenscenter.com). Think about the tiny neighbors in Central Florida (& wherever you live) who are scheduled to have their arms and legs ripped off their body and their heads crushed today and the next day and the next day and the day after that. For those of you in Orlando, as you read the following, think of all the children, like Baby Rowan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfnNzIzvT-k), who are being delivered alive into the toilet every Wednesday, beginning at 9am. Think of abortion as you read the biblical mandate to "Go" to rescue the perishing in Jesus' Name. And, please, ask the Savior to help you obey His great commission ...
For Life & Eternity,
Patte Smith
Sanctuary Ministries
www.sanctuaryministries.blogspot.com
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Sin of Omission
Zephaniah 1:12
Pictured as holding aloft a lamp as He walks, God searches through the city—Jerusalem, Zion—shining a light to reveal everyone to His judgment. No one escapes the judgment of God. Who is He looking for in particular? He looks for complacent men, like the Laodicean. Just as Hosea uses wine to illustrate the principle, Zephaniah also mentions wine though it is obscured in the translation: the words "settled in complacency" are literally "settled on their lees" like the dregs of wine (cf. the footnote on this verse, NKJV)!
Again, the prophet speaks of a prosperous people who had deluded themselves into believing that their physical wealth meant that they were equally rich spiritually. As the years passed, their relationship with God had diminished into lip service and complacency. When God describes them saying things "in their heart," He means a reasoning process that happens internally. A person could not see it with his eyes, but the attitude cannot be hidden from the Judge walking the city with the lamp of truth.
In today's parlance we call their problem "sins of omission." Like the Laodicean, the religious Jew of that day was not on the streets committing horrible crimes like murder or rape or armed robbery. These verses speak about the thousands and thousands of ordinary people who were stagnant and indifferent toward their relationship with God. Their problem was not what they did, but what they did not do.
Nor does God accuse the Laodicean of the more apparent sins in Revelation 3. He is angry with him because of what he is not doing! He is not a true and faithful witness, and indeed cannot be, because of his poor judgment in prioritizing his life. In focusing on his selfish pursuits and self-centeredness, he leaves God almost completely out of his life. Still, he bears the name of God, attends Sabbath services, and at least in a superficial way, worships God on the Sabbath. Yet the relationship is growing cold as he fails to seek Him earnestly as in courtship.
John W. Ritenbaugh
The World, the Church and Laodiceanism
James 1:27 says, "Pure and undefiled religion . . . is . . . to visit orphans and widows in their troubles, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world." Notice what he puts first: Pure religion is helping those who are in need, showing your love to them, and then it is keeping oneself pure. Remember, the knowledge God gives us is predominantly and ultimately practical, useful, helpful, outgoing.
Richard T. Ritenbaugh
It Takes a Church
...and one of you tells them, "Go in peace! Stay warm and eat heartily." If you do not provide for their bodily needs, what good does it do?
James 2:16
Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled. Express to the needy only kind wishes; that he be warmed by receiving good clothing and fed by food being provided.
What doth it profit? Such good wishes are worthless unless followed up by active help to the sufferer.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
16. The habit of receiving passively sentimental impressions from sights of woe without carrying them out into active habits only hardens the heart.
one of you-James brings home the case to his hearers individually.
Depart in peace-as if all their wants were satisfied by the mere words addressed to them. The same words in the mouth of Christ, whose faith they said they had, were accompanied by efficient deeds of love.
be . warmed-with clothing, instead of being as heretofore "naked" (Jas 2:15; Job 31:20).
filled-instead of being "destitute of food" (Mt 15:37).
what doth it profit-concluding with the same question as at the beginning, Jas 2:14. Just retribution: kind professions unaccompanied with corresponding acts, as they are of no "profit" to the needy object of them, so are of no profit to the professor himself. So faith consisting in mere profession is unacceptable to God, the object of faith, and profitless to the possessor.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
2:14-26 Those are wrong who put a mere notional belief of the gospel for the whole of evangelical religion, as many now do. No doubt, true faith alone, whereby men have part in Christ's righteousness, atonement, and grace, saves their souls; but it produces holy fruits, and is shown to be real by its effect on their works; while mere assent to any form of doctrine, or mere historical belief of any facts, wholly differs from this saving faith. A bare profession may gain the good opinion of pious people; and it may procure, in some cases, worldly good things; but what profit will it be, for any to gain the whole world, and to lose their souls? Can this faith save him? All things should be accounted profitable or unprofitable to us, as they tend to forward or hinder the salvation of our souls. This place of Scripture plainly shows that an opinion, or assent to the gospel, without works, is not faith ...Living to God, as it is the consequence of faith, which justifies and will save, obliges us to do nothing against him, but every thing for him and to him.
I John 3:17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?
Geneva Study Bible
{17} But whoso hath this {p} world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and {q} shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
(17) He reasons by comparisons: for if we are bound even to give our life for our neighbours, how much more are we bound to help our brothers' needs with our goods and substance?
(p) Wherewith this life is sustained.
(q) Opens not his heart to him, nor helps him willingly and cheerfully.
Wesley's Notes
...The very sight of want knocks at the door of the spectator's heart. And shutteth up - Whether asked or not. His bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him/ - Certainly not at all, however he may talk, 1Jo 3:18, of loving God.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
...How is it possible that "the love of (that is, 'to') God dwelleth (Greek, 'abideth') in him?" Our superfluities should yield to the necessities; our comforts, and even our necessaries in some measure, should yield to the extreme wants of our brethren. "Faith gives Christ to me; love flowing from faith gives me to my neighbor."
Geneva Study Bible
{17} But whoso hath this {p} world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and {q} shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
(17) He reasons by comparisons: for if we are bound even to give our life for our neighbours, how much more are we bound to help our brothers' needs with our goods and substance?
(p) Wherewith this life is sustained.
(q) Opens not his heart to him, nor helps him willingly and cheerfully.
People's New Testament
3:17 But he who hath this world's goods, etc. If this be true, what shall be said of one who refuses to succor his suffering brother with all his goods?
Wesley's Notes
3:17 But whoso hath this world's good - Worldly substance, far less valuable than life. And seeth his brother have need - The very sight of want knocks at the door of the spectator's heart. And shutteth up - Whether asked or not. His bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him - Certainly not at all, however he may talk, 1Jo 3:18, of loving God.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
17. this world's good-literally, "livelihood" or substance. If we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren (1Jo 3:16), how much more ought we not to withhold our substance?
seeth-not merely casually, but deliberately contemplates as a spectator; Greek, "beholds."
shutteth up his bowels of compassion-which had been momentarily opened by the spectacle of his brother's need. The "bowels" mean the heart, the seat of compassion.
how-How is it possible that "the love of (that is, 'to') God dwelleth (Greek, 'abideth') in him?" Our superfluities should yield to the necessities; our comforts, and even our necessaries in some measure, should yield to the extreme wants of our brethren. "Faith gives Christ to me; love flowing from faith gives me to my neighbor."
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
The Holy Spirit, grieved at selfishness, will leave the selfish heart without comfort, and full of darkness and terror. By what can it be known that a man has a true sense of the love of Christ for perishing sinners, or that the love of God has been planted in his heart by the Holy Spirit, if the love of the world and its good overcomes the feelings of compassion to a perishing brother? Every instance of this selfishness must weaken the evidences of a man's conversion; when habitual and allowed, it must decide against him. If conscience condemn us in known sin, or the neglect of known duty, God does so too. Let conscience therefore be well-informed, be heard, and diligently attended to.
"If you love those who love you, what thanks do you deserve? Why, even sinners love those who love them.
Luke 6:32
Wesley's Notes
It is greatly observable, our Lord has so little regard for one of the highest instances of natural virtue, namely, the returning love for love, that he does not account it even to deserve thanks. For even sinners, saith he, do the same: men who do not regard God at all. Therefore he may do this, who has not taken one step in Christianity.
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
Matthew 5:46
Wesley's Notes
5:46 The publicans These were generally odious for their extortion and oppression, and were reckoned by the Jews as the very scum of the earth.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
The meaning, then, is, "In loving those who love you, there is no evidence of superior principle; the worst of men will do this: even a publican will go that length."
People's New Testament
5:46 Do not even the publicans the same? The tax collectors, the gatherers of the Roman tribute, were generally odious, and deemed the scum of the earth, but even they loved those who loved them.
Others salute their brethren, and embrace those of their own party, and way, and opinion, but we must not so confine our respect...Surely more is to be expected from the followers of Christ than from others; surely more will be found in them than in others. Let us beg of God to enable us to prove ourselves His children.
If anyone honestly and truly believes that when a baby is murdered by abortion through all nine months of pregnancy that it is the murder of that wee human being, what exactly would stop them from physically trying to save the imperiled infants in their community? How is it loving our neighbor if we keep passing by on the other side of the road, bible tucked under our arm, hurrying on our way to another Christian retreat or conference or even a pro-life 'event'? How does our neglect of the innocents & their lost mothers show them that we love them as we love ourselves?
Although many people have accused me of caring too much about the babies being murdered by abortion, I have to wonder, don't they ever think that maybe, just maybe, they care too little?
I have taken the liberty to gather some thoughts & scriptures & commentaries on a few biblical themes that I believe come into play when we consider whether or not it is SIN to fail to physically intervene for the little orphans who are being murdered by their mothers and the ones whom she hires. Below you will find notes on the Sin of Omission, failing to meet the need of a neighbor who is known to be in dire distress, refusing to love strangers, etc. I would like to ask the reader to continually keep in mind that poor little voiceless babies are being led to unspeakably painful deaths seven days a week in NINE killing times at Orlando Women's Center (www.womenscenter.com). Think about the tiny neighbors in Central Florida (& wherever you live) who are scheduled to have their arms and legs ripped off their body and their heads crushed today and the next day and the next day and the day after that. For those of you in Orlando, as you read the following, think of all the children, like Baby Rowan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfnNzIzvT-k), who are being delivered alive into the toilet every Wednesday, beginning at 9am. Think of abortion as you read the biblical mandate to "Go" to rescue the perishing in Jesus' Name. And, please, ask the Savior to help you obey His great commission ...
For Life & Eternity,
Patte Smith
Sanctuary Ministries
www.sanctuaryministries.blogspot.com
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Sin of Omission
Zephaniah 1:12
Pictured as holding aloft a lamp as He walks, God searches through the city—Jerusalem, Zion—shining a light to reveal everyone to His judgment. No one escapes the judgment of God. Who is He looking for in particular? He looks for complacent men, like the Laodicean. Just as Hosea uses wine to illustrate the principle, Zephaniah also mentions wine though it is obscured in the translation: the words "settled in complacency" are literally "settled on their lees" like the dregs of wine (cf. the footnote on this verse, NKJV)!
Again, the prophet speaks of a prosperous people who had deluded themselves into believing that their physical wealth meant that they were equally rich spiritually. As the years passed, their relationship with God had diminished into lip service and complacency. When God describes them saying things "in their heart," He means a reasoning process that happens internally. A person could not see it with his eyes, but the attitude cannot be hidden from the Judge walking the city with the lamp of truth.
In today's parlance we call their problem "sins of omission." Like the Laodicean, the religious Jew of that day was not on the streets committing horrible crimes like murder or rape or armed robbery. These verses speak about the thousands and thousands of ordinary people who were stagnant and indifferent toward their relationship with God. Their problem was not what they did, but what they did not do.
Nor does God accuse the Laodicean of the more apparent sins in Revelation 3. He is angry with him because of what he is not doing! He is not a true and faithful witness, and indeed cannot be, because of his poor judgment in prioritizing his life. In focusing on his selfish pursuits and self-centeredness, he leaves God almost completely out of his life. Still, he bears the name of God, attends Sabbath services, and at least in a superficial way, worships God on the Sabbath. Yet the relationship is growing cold as he fails to seek Him earnestly as in courtship.
John W. Ritenbaugh
The World, the Church and Laodiceanism
James 1:27 says, "Pure and undefiled religion . . . is . . . to visit orphans and widows in their troubles, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world." Notice what he puts first: Pure religion is helping those who are in need, showing your love to them, and then it is keeping oneself pure. Remember, the knowledge God gives us is predominantly and ultimately practical, useful, helpful, outgoing.
Richard T. Ritenbaugh
It Takes a Church
...and one of you tells them, "Go in peace! Stay warm and eat heartily." If you do not provide for their bodily needs, what good does it do?
James 2:16
Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled. Express to the needy only kind wishes; that he be warmed by receiving good clothing and fed by food being provided.
What doth it profit? Such good wishes are worthless unless followed up by active help to the sufferer.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
16. The habit of receiving passively sentimental impressions from sights of woe without carrying them out into active habits only hardens the heart.
one of you-James brings home the case to his hearers individually.
Depart in peace-as if all their wants were satisfied by the mere words addressed to them. The same words in the mouth of Christ, whose faith they said they had, were accompanied by efficient deeds of love.
be . warmed-with clothing, instead of being as heretofore "naked" (Jas 2:15; Job 31:20).
filled-instead of being "destitute of food" (Mt 15:37).
what doth it profit-concluding with the same question as at the beginning, Jas 2:14. Just retribution: kind professions unaccompanied with corresponding acts, as they are of no "profit" to the needy object of them, so are of no profit to the professor himself. So faith consisting in mere profession is unacceptable to God, the object of faith, and profitless to the possessor.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
2:14-26 Those are wrong who put a mere notional belief of the gospel for the whole of evangelical religion, as many now do. No doubt, true faith alone, whereby men have part in Christ's righteousness, atonement, and grace, saves their souls; but it produces holy fruits, and is shown to be real by its effect on their works; while mere assent to any form of doctrine, or mere historical belief of any facts, wholly differs from this saving faith. A bare profession may gain the good opinion of pious people; and it may procure, in some cases, worldly good things; but what profit will it be, for any to gain the whole world, and to lose their souls? Can this faith save him? All things should be accounted profitable or unprofitable to us, as they tend to forward or hinder the salvation of our souls. This place of Scripture plainly shows that an opinion, or assent to the gospel, without works, is not faith ...Living to God, as it is the consequence of faith, which justifies and will save, obliges us to do nothing against him, but every thing for him and to him.
I John 3:17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?
Geneva Study Bible
{17} But whoso hath this {p} world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and {q} shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
(17) He reasons by comparisons: for if we are bound even to give our life for our neighbours, how much more are we bound to help our brothers' needs with our goods and substance?
(p) Wherewith this life is sustained.
(q) Opens not his heart to him, nor helps him willingly and cheerfully.
Wesley's Notes
...The very sight of want knocks at the door of the spectator's heart. And shutteth up - Whether asked or not. His bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him/ - Certainly not at all, however he may talk, 1Jo 3:18, of loving God.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
...How is it possible that "the love of (that is, 'to') God dwelleth (Greek, 'abideth') in him?" Our superfluities should yield to the necessities; our comforts, and even our necessaries in some measure, should yield to the extreme wants of our brethren. "Faith gives Christ to me; love flowing from faith gives me to my neighbor."
Geneva Study Bible
{17} But whoso hath this {p} world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and {q} shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
(17) He reasons by comparisons: for if we are bound even to give our life for our neighbours, how much more are we bound to help our brothers' needs with our goods and substance?
(p) Wherewith this life is sustained.
(q) Opens not his heart to him, nor helps him willingly and cheerfully.
People's New Testament
3:17 But he who hath this world's goods, etc. If this be true, what shall be said of one who refuses to succor his suffering brother with all his goods?
Wesley's Notes
3:17 But whoso hath this world's good - Worldly substance, far less valuable than life. And seeth his brother have need - The very sight of want knocks at the door of the spectator's heart. And shutteth up - Whether asked or not. His bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him - Certainly not at all, however he may talk, 1Jo 3:18, of loving God.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
17. this world's good-literally, "livelihood" or substance. If we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren (1Jo 3:16), how much more ought we not to withhold our substance?
seeth-not merely casually, but deliberately contemplates as a spectator; Greek, "beholds."
shutteth up his bowels of compassion-which had been momentarily opened by the spectacle of his brother's need. The "bowels" mean the heart, the seat of compassion.
how-How is it possible that "the love of (that is, 'to') God dwelleth (Greek, 'abideth') in him?" Our superfluities should yield to the necessities; our comforts, and even our necessaries in some measure, should yield to the extreme wants of our brethren. "Faith gives Christ to me; love flowing from faith gives me to my neighbor."
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
The Holy Spirit, grieved at selfishness, will leave the selfish heart without comfort, and full of darkness and terror. By what can it be known that a man has a true sense of the love of Christ for perishing sinners, or that the love of God has been planted in his heart by the Holy Spirit, if the love of the world and its good overcomes the feelings of compassion to a perishing brother? Every instance of this selfishness must weaken the evidences of a man's conversion; when habitual and allowed, it must decide against him. If conscience condemn us in known sin, or the neglect of known duty, God does so too. Let conscience therefore be well-informed, be heard, and diligently attended to.
"If you love those who love you, what thanks do you deserve? Why, even sinners love those who love them.
Luke 6:32
Wesley's Notes
It is greatly observable, our Lord has so little regard for one of the highest instances of natural virtue, namely, the returning love for love, that he does not account it even to deserve thanks. For even sinners, saith he, do the same: men who do not regard God at all. Therefore he may do this, who has not taken one step in Christianity.
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
Matthew 5:46
Wesley's Notes
5:46 The publicans These were generally odious for their extortion and oppression, and were reckoned by the Jews as the very scum of the earth.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
The meaning, then, is, "In loving those who love you, there is no evidence of superior principle; the worst of men will do this: even a publican will go that length."
People's New Testament
5:46 Do not even the publicans the same? The tax collectors, the gatherers of the Roman tribute, were generally odious, and deemed the scum of the earth, but even they loved those who loved them.
Others salute their brethren, and embrace those of their own party, and way, and opinion, but we must not so confine our respect...Surely more is to be expected from the followers of Christ than from others; surely more will be found in them than in others. Let us beg of God to enable us to prove ourselves His children.
“He pulls the body parts out & holds them up like trophies”
The Bible states in Deuteronomy 27:25 that there is a curse upon those who take a reward to slay an innocent person. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to get paid dismember people while they are still alive? The Bible states that there is a curse upon those who take a reward to slay an innocent person. I recently had the opportunity to witness to a sonographer at an abortion clinic that kills babies up to 14 weeks gestation. 'Nellie' said that she had previously worked at a late term abortuary but “couldn’t take it because they do late abortions there” Nellie had done ultrasounds on women who were killing there babies but,“I just couldn’t deal with that, so I quit The babies are so big.”
I asked Nellie if she let the women who came for abortions see their babies on ultrasound. Nellie said; “Yes,we ask them if they want to see it.” I asked if many of the women wanted to see their babies & she said: “Yes, that’s what’s so upsetting. Most of them want to look at the ultrasound. They even want the pictures. Now, that is what bothers me. It is just sick. We don’t give pictures anyway but, I mean, they’re going to get rid of them & they want the pictures. Some of them are big babies. Fully formed. It’s just sickening.”
When I asked Nellie why she thought the aborting moms wanted the ultrasound photos of the babies they were aborting, she said: “Most of them just want to rub it in their boyfriend’s faces”.
Yesterday, I spoke to another woman named 'L' who worked at the same late term abortuary where Nellie had worked. L thinks that someone should do something about the illegal activities there. Although the state only allows the murder of babies up to 25 weeks of pregnancy, she saw the abortionist kill an infant at 30 weeks. L explained how the abortionist would "talk about what he was having for lunch while he was cutting up the babies" & “He pulls the body parts out & holds them up like trophies.” Arms, legs, heads. L saw one baby’s head with his eyes open. This image is burned into her brain. L cannot get it out of her mind & she cannot understand & wonders: “How can they just keep on doing this over & over?”
L says that the abortionist made sure that the babies that he was butchering illegally were not recorded as 3rd trimester in the mother's medical chart. She said: "He had no trouble falsifying medicals record & with Hippa (a serious medical confidentiality law) no one will ever know." L explained how at the end of every day:“He scours records to cover records that would incriminate him, to cover his tracks.” “He would go into the record of the 3rd tri babies & change the gestation to 24 weeks.” “He even went over the path notes to change them to reflect what he wanted them to reflect.”
I asked, “Were any of the babies born alive?” L answered: “Well, he cuts them up into pieces, so…”
L said that "Patients were regularly abused" When I asked what kind of abuse, she told me:“They (nurses & anesthesiologist) awakened the women from anesthesia by slapping them violently in the face”
The abortionist who kills the babies at that particular clinic is also a practicing obstetrician. L said: “It’s hard to fathom how this man delivers babies and also aborts them. It’s like he has no conscience.”
L reported that they did 8000 abortions a year & was very disturbed by the number of women having multiple abortions. “Of the 50 or so (aborting women) I would see in a day, 30 of them were repeats.” L was shocked to find out that even after being abused by the staff women kept coming back, noting;“They did 22 on one patient” That was a record number of abortions for one woman at that place.
I know that many of you are probably wondering: "How is it possible that this place cannot be shut down?" Tragically, although we keep hearing how much women regret their abortions, not much can be done about these illegal late-term abortions or the abuse because post-abortive women & the clinic workers are not willing to provide sworn testimony, medical records & evidence. We obviously need clinic workers & aborting women need to get their medical records from where they killed their babies & speak up & be willing to testify to the state attorney's office & the regulating bodies of their state.
Like all of the other women (with the exception of Tricia Marlena Feldman & Baby Rowan's mom) that I have met over the years who were willing to tell me what they experienced when they worked at a mill or killed their baby, L wants to expose the place & shut it down but insists on remaining anonymous. “I feel guilty. My conscience is bothering me. I have been praying. I don’t want to go to hell. I figure if I do what I can to expose this, that maybe this place will get shut down & at least I could feel good about that.” It is entirely understandable why L is hesitating to come forward with what she has seen & heard at this particular killing place. She is frightened:“I have seen what this guy does. I am afraid of what the guy would do to me & my family. He has no conscience. I am not sure what he would do but I am afraid. I mean, he kills those little babies & it doesn't seem to bother him at all. He is diabolical. I have a family. I am afraid that he would go after me & ruin my career that I worked very hard for.”
When I first spoke with L she said: 'Believe me, I am very, very familiar with what Christians believe & I have respect for that.” During our conversation I explained to L that although I very much appreciate that she is willing to expose the unfruitful deeds of darkness, she cannot get rid of her guilty conscience by doing good work. I explained that that Jesus said that “There is no one good but God” & that the Bible clearly teaches that there is “none righteous, no not one”. I told L that we are all given a conscience & that God has written His law upon our hearts. I said: "L, we all know "You shall not murder" (aborting moms & abortionists & everyone who works in the abortuaries) & we have to press past this obstacle to sin against God & against the babies. We don't have any excuse for murdering an innocent person or for standing by while a baby is slain." I spoke several times of the holocaust, pointing Lyn to the FACT that men & women are basically evil & that is why they are willing to dehumanize Jews & the pre-born & then slaughter them like pigs. I said: "That is also why they are willing to stand by as it happens by either justification or denial or apathy or hoping that if it is really true that someone else will do something about it." I explained to Lyn that “there is no remission (forgiveness) of sin without the shedding of blood”. That Jesus is the Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away sin. I told L that only by genuine repentance & faith in Christ can her real guilt, that of original sin from Adam & our own sin in thought, word & deed, be washed away & her conscience cleansed. I explained that there is no other way to be clean before God & men than the way that He has already provided.
I also told L that just like me with Pendergraft, there is no way that she is ‘safe’ from the abortionist apart from the protection of Almighty God. “Someone else could blow the whistle on him & he could think it was you & come after you.” I encouraged L to trust in God, who is all-powerful & to flee to Him, through repenting faith in Christ. L admitted “I am praying but I must not trust God because I am still afraid of what this guy might do.” I told L that if she was willing to go public, like on O’Reilly or something, that she could say out loud that she was afraid of ______, which it seems to me, would be MORE protection because he would be under judicial & public scrutiny. L admitted that might be true.
Won't you join me in praying for L's salvation? Pray that she would fear God more than man & would come to the knowlege of the One who is greater than the one who is in the world.
Pray also that we would be given the wisdom of God in how to proceed with the information that we have. It is all old news to me. I have heard the same kind stories about Orlando Women's Center for more than a decade. I have no confidence in the arm of flesh or the judicial system. Sadly, I also have no confidence in the church system. Our strength, our confidence, is in the Lord God of heaven & earth. Jesus Christ spoke the world & all human beings into existence with the Word of His power. The Lord upholds & sustains His world & His creatures by the power of His might. He rules His world with His sovereign hand. It is my humble opinion that this unwillingness by the church to provide a mass presence at killing places, day & night until the murder of infants ceases, is one of the reasons why over a millioin babies are dismembered & delivered alive into the toilets of parish abortion clinics. I honestly believe that it is the judgment of God upon our nation & her worldly visible church. As you know, judgement begins in the household of God, the covenant community who profess to know Christ.
Even though I struggle with righteous anger & despair over the genocidal injustice we witness every week at the killing place in Orlando & in the other cities where the Lord is leading my husband & I to minister, I cry out with my brother Job, who prayed:
"I know that You can do everything & that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted."
Won't you prayerfully consider how the Lord Jesus Christ might use YOU to visit the imperiled orphans in their affliction & offer their lost mothers your loving Christian witness at the killing places? We currently have plenty of opportunity for mission-minded Christians to labor in the field of blood & souls at Orlando Women's Center. We will train you to take your own day & time to witness & by God's grace, rescue the perishing, in Jesus' Name. For information on how to get started spend time with the Savior & then simply e mail us for some support & help at: forlifeandeternity@gmail.com If your church & the people in it are not already doing evangelism at a local killing place it would be our privilege to serve the Lord through the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry.
Together for Life & Eternity,
Patte Smith
Sanctuary Ministries
www.sanctuaryministries.blogspot.com
Christians go to the killing place with Jesus & have divine appointments
The following is an update I just received from Spring, one of our precious missionaries who co-labors with us at Orlando Women's Center abortuary (www.womenscenter.com) I have edited it for clarity & to protect the identity of the people Spring is writing about. Spring also took a photo of 'Paul' standing with her husband Steve, but I will not share that for obvious reasons. This is from today's missionary time.
~ Patte
Dear Patte,
What a morning.
Missionaries present: Allura, Rusty, Dilek, Rachel, her mom, me and my husband Steve & 1 Catholic prayer warrior. There were about 25-30 people total who arrived to abort their babies this am. I gave out 4 packets, but one girl returned it.
Paul stands out in my mind. He is a young man we met. Allura was the first of us to witness to him and his girlfriend, Dina. Dina was very obstinate about aborting, but Paul WANTS his baby. It seems Dina's having complications and may miscarry. We offered her the name of a wonderful high risk obstetrician, but Dina wouldn't take the info. Paul told her he refused to support her decision to and left the clinic because she would not turn away from aborting! Before he left, Steve and I went to him & shared our testimonies. Paul confessed that another girlfriend was pregnant with twins and aborted them. At his young age (early 20's) Paul had already 3 babies of his killed by their moms. We challenged Paul's sexual immorality and shared to Gospel with him. He confessed to bring unsure of God, but wants to do right in case there is a judgement! He appears to being wrought upon by the Holy Spirit & is open to the truth. We gave Paul "Are u good enough to go to heaven?" and the True Repentance tract. We encouraged Paul to read his Bible and find others that obey God's Word to disciple him. We prayed for him and he was thankful.
Another man wanted to debate the validity of Scripture to assuage his own conscience and try to excuse the bloodguilt. He was quite religiously prideful, but denied God's power. He was unrepentant, but received the Word! Christina was a young mom of 4 (including baby in womb). She talked with me through her tears, but refused my offers of help. She said she can't raise another baby and I told her she didn't have to! I explained adoption and adressed her conscience at work to prevent her from doing evil. She agreed, but it appeared that Christina would not turn from her plan to kill her child. (We always have hope that the moms we meet will change their mind, If not while we are there, then after we leave.) One mother who came with her daughter told Allura that she was once in her daughter shoes and if she chose abortion, her daughter Randy (aborting mom) would not be alive! She didn't want her grandchild aborted, but refused to remove her presence of support for her daughter as she killed her grandchild, stating "It's her choice." She was teary eyed, but no fear of the Lord : (
Those are the stories I know...Allura may have more. I thank God each person who arrived at Orlando Women's Center this morning was offered help and Truth.
To God be the Glory!
Spring
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Ursula reported the following after ministering during the afternoon killing time, from 12:15-1:30:
Wednesday afternoon was hell!! Please have Nancy describe it. She came later, but she came,and I was so happy for the support. I almost got attacked. Nancy had a long conversation with one abortion-minded mom with a tubal pregnancy.We saw several coming out after the abortion. One was crying very hard, but this did not keep the waiting crowd from changing their minds.
Ursula
Nancy wrote:
Lots of moms and dad delivering their babies to certain death. Many hardened hearts. It is as if Obama has unleashed a whole underworld of evil. With the economy parents want to abort. The men and women are getting more outspoken and crude.
God is still in control but it definitely is a road less traveled…at least the road we counselors are walking.
Love,
Nancy
~ Patte
Dear Patte,
What a morning.
Missionaries present: Allura, Rusty, Dilek, Rachel, her mom, me and my husband Steve & 1 Catholic prayer warrior. There were about 25-30 people total who arrived to abort their babies this am. I gave out 4 packets, but one girl returned it.
Paul stands out in my mind. He is a young man we met. Allura was the first of us to witness to him and his girlfriend, Dina. Dina was very obstinate about aborting, but Paul WANTS his baby. It seems Dina's having complications and may miscarry. We offered her the name of a wonderful high risk obstetrician, but Dina wouldn't take the info. Paul told her he refused to support her decision to and left the clinic because she would not turn away from aborting! Before he left, Steve and I went to him & shared our testimonies. Paul confessed that another girlfriend was pregnant with twins and aborted them. At his young age (early 20's) Paul had already 3 babies of his killed by their moms. We challenged Paul's sexual immorality and shared to Gospel with him. He confessed to bring unsure of God, but wants to do right in case there is a judgement! He appears to being wrought upon by the Holy Spirit & is open to the truth. We gave Paul "Are u good enough to go to heaven?" and the True Repentance tract. We encouraged Paul to read his Bible and find others that obey God's Word to disciple him. We prayed for him and he was thankful.
Another man wanted to debate the validity of Scripture to assuage his own conscience and try to excuse the bloodguilt. He was quite religiously prideful, but denied God's power. He was unrepentant, but received the Word! Christina was a young mom of 4 (including baby in womb). She talked with me through her tears, but refused my offers of help. She said she can't raise another baby and I told her she didn't have to! I explained adoption and adressed her conscience at work to prevent her from doing evil. She agreed, but it appeared that Christina would not turn from her plan to kill her child. (We always have hope that the moms we meet will change their mind, If not while we are there, then after we leave.) One mother who came with her daughter told Allura that she was once in her daughter shoes and if she chose abortion, her daughter Randy (aborting mom) would not be alive! She didn't want her grandchild aborted, but refused to remove her presence of support for her daughter as she killed her grandchild, stating "It's her choice." She was teary eyed, but no fear of the Lord : (
Those are the stories I know...Allura may have more. I thank God each person who arrived at Orlando Women's Center this morning was offered help and Truth.
To God be the Glory!
Spring
____________________
Ursula reported the following after ministering during the afternoon killing time, from 12:15-1:30:
Wednesday afternoon was hell!! Please have Nancy describe it. She came later, but she came,and I was so happy for the support. I almost got attacked. Nancy had a long conversation with one abortion-minded mom with a tubal pregnancy.We saw several coming out after the abortion. One was crying very hard, but this did not keep the waiting crowd from changing their minds.
Ursula
Nancy wrote:
Lots of moms and dad delivering their babies to certain death. Many hardened hearts. It is as if Obama has unleashed a whole underworld of evil. With the economy parents want to abort. The men and women are getting more outspoken and crude.
God is still in control but it definitely is a road less traveled…at least the road we counselors are walking.
Love,
Nancy
What things does the Bible teach Christian women to speak to ungodly & godly women?
As a believer in Christ for nearly three decades I have the blessed privilege to disciple the precious godly women around me. As a missionary to lost abortion-bound mothers outside killing places for over 16 years, I have the honor of bringing the gospel of life & eternity to dozens of lost women every week. My greatest desire is to see that all of my children walk in the truth & I have that same desire for the ungodly & believing women around me. As an older woman in the Lord & a student of the scriptures I find some strikingly direct & plain-spoken directive for Christian women. I am delighted to bring you the Bible's answer to the question:
How are we women to conduct ourselves in the world & as we minister to the women around us?
Titus 2:1-5 tells us to;
"... speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine ... the older women ... (are to be) teachers of good things-admonish the young women to love their husband, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the Word of God may not be blasphemed."
admonish: verb 1. to advise or urge seriously 2. to reprove mildly but firmly
Geneva Study Bible notes that admonish means: "bring them to their senses"
chaste: adj 1. virgin, celebate 2. not having sexual intercourse except with the person to whom one is married 3. simple in style, not ornate, provocative or immodest
The overriding concern of the Holy Spirit speaking through Paul is that the behavior & counsel of the godly woman is to reflect truth & faithfulness to the gospel of Christ. That we be found;
' ... holding fast the faithful Word ... that (s)he may be able, by sound doctrine, & to exhort & convict those who contradict.." Titus 1:9
exhort: verb to urge or advise earnestly
convict: verb to prove or declare a person guilty, as in bring under conviction
Our primary goal in life, in our family & in ministry to aborting women is not to promote the happiness or well-being or success of the woman (or ourselves) but that we would glorify Christ & the Word of His truth. Thanks be to God when we live in obedience to the revealed & prescribed will of the Lord we will reap the benefits & blessings of peace with God through Jesus Christ, 'For He Himself IS our peace' (Ephesians 2:14). By our refusal to suppress the truth in unrighteousness & our humble dependence on the grace of Jesus Christ & the 'acknowlegment of the truth which accords with godliness' we might enjoy the favor of Him who created & sustains us & the knowlege that we have done what God has commanded us to do.
Yes, we want to love the aborting mother & prevent the murder of her dear little baby. Inherent in our duty from the scriptures as godly women is to teach the mothers to "love their children". Obviously planning the slaughter of her child is the opposite of maternal love. It is murder from the heart. In the process of counseling we are never to compromise the truth to accomodate sin & the lie of a woman-centered counsel in the process. To do so denies the Lord & shows a flagrant disregard for both the earthly & eternal well-being of both mother and child. It is not speaking sound doctrine. May we never provide false comfort to a sexually immoral mother who is about to slay her infant by giving her murder as an 'option', when God explictly forbids it in His commandments, saying "You shall not murder". This commandment is written on her heart by God's own finger. It informs her God-given conscience. We must resist the temptation to obfusgate & diminish the seriousness of the sin of shedding innocent blood by offering her post-murder care. This amounts to blessing the murder of an poor little baby with the promise of foriveness & healing & equals the sin of presumption on the part of both those who gave her the material & the aborting mother herself. (We recently met an aborting mother who had a pregnancy test & counseling at a local crisis pregnancy center & carried post-abortion support material with her TO THE ABORTION CLINIC.) Providing support to a guilty murderer is prohibited in the Bible. (See Proverbs 28:17 & commentaries) It reveals depraved indifference to the imperiled victim; the little child, when we are to love the baby as we love ourselves. This is also a violation of the Sixth commandment's duty required as stated in the Question 68 & 69 of the Shorter Catechism
Q. 68. What is required in the sixth commandment?
A. The sixth commandment requireth all lawful endeavors to preserve our own life, and the life of others.
Q. 69. What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
A. The sixth commandment forbiddeth the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbor, unjustly, or whatsoever tendeth thereunto.
'For the wrath of God is revealed against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of (wo)men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.' Romans 1:18 &19
The Geneva Study Bible notes: "It is not that the truth is sought but cannot be found, but rather that, confronted with the truth (which is clearly see, vs 20) fallen humanity seeks to hinder & obstruct its influence, & is therefore 'without excuse' (vs 20). The 'excuse' in view is an appeal to ignorance."
This revelation of the nature of God's common grace in general revelation (http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/packer/04guilt.html)
applies to both the believer & unbeliever. It applies equally to the mother who is fornicating & murdering the child in her womb & those of us women who have the divine opportunity to minister to her.
Let it never be said of us who profess to follow the Lord Jesus that we hindered & obstructed the truth & it's influence in the name of 'ministry' or even of our 'religion' (which often leads us to believe that to 'make nice' is better than to share the truth as it is in Jesus). For if we do we become one of the ones who blaspheme the Word of God.
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Sanctuary Ministries Update
Orlando Women's Center abortion clinic
(www.womenscenter.com)
Gospel Outreach
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
1pm abortion time
Missionaries: Allura, Nancy, SJ, Sarah, Naomi, Eric, Garrett, Taylor, Alex
Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
Prov. 24:11
Alluring reporting:
Dear Friends,
We had a crew of young people ministering at OWC today! SJ, Sarah Morgan, Naomi, & I were blessed with the presence of 3 young men: Eric Garrett, Taylor Chew, and Alex Corbett! Several of us met at Einsteins at 11 to pray and seek God, and then headed to owc at 12. Nancy, our sweet Catholic friend, joined us too! Officer Wilson was the off-duty policeman, but he didn’t bother us at all! Praise the Lord!
There were quite a few women coming to kill their unborn babies, but one couple stands out in particular. Dimitri, (18) arrived with his pretty girlfriend, “Allie”, the mother of his 3 mth old daughter, Desireah. Before becoming pregnant with Desireah, Allie had aborted another baby at 5 months, and now she was pregnant again. (3 pregnancies & only 17 yrs old!) This sweet young couple listened politely as Eric and I pleaded with them to save the life of this baby. We discussed adoption but they weren’t interested. While Eric spoke to Dimitri, Allie kept shivering in the cold, and God directed me to get a jacket out of the car and wrap it around her shoulders. She seemed not to care, but I could tell she was grateful, and it allowed her to listen more intently as Eric graciously and lovingly took them both through the Law. At one point when he said that our sins must be punished by a holy God, Dimitri nodded, “The wages of sin is death…yep, I know that.” Allie quietly shared that Dimitri’s dad is a preacher. (We meet so many PKs at the abortion mill) I told Allie that this child (like the one she’d already killed, and her beautiful little Desireah) is a gift from God…just like she was a gift to her parents. But she shook her head sadly; it was obvious that this lost little girl doesn’t feel like a “gift” to anyone.
Dimitri listened as Eric read from Hebrews 3, “Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God”…and “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion”. Eric and I thought their hearts were softening, but then Allie turned away from us, took the jacket off and handed it to me, without looking back, and putting her arm through her boyfriend’s, said, “Come on; let’s go in”…but not before Eric and I saw the tears start streaming down her cheeks. We asked if we could pray for them, but she said no, and they walked into the killing place…to kill yet another child.
SJ and Sarah M. walked way down the street to talk to a woman who at first said she had 2 children at home and couldn’t raise another one…then later said she had 4 children at home and couldn’t raise another one. When I tried to talk to her, she wouldn’t say a word. Taylor, Alex, and Naomi all reached out to several people, but no one seemed to listen.
Please pray tomorrow (Wed) morning between 8:00 – 9:30 when Rusty Hein, Spring Mingey, and I plan to minister to late term and 1st trimester aborting women. If you’re able to join us, we could certainly use the help! I plan to be at owc this Saturday morning from 8:00 – 9:30, as well, if you are able to join us. This Easter weekend, may each of us be freshly aware of our Savior’s great sacrifice on the Cross, and may it fill us with great gratitude that the sinless One became sin so that we might enjoy Him forever. Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! Hallelujah!
Just another pilgrim, A
PS If you have facebook, check out my pics of Wanda’s baby boy who was saved from abortion at owc, as well as pics of sidewalk counselors “Rescuing those being led away to death” (Prov. 24:11)
Join us for ...
Sanctuary Ministries Abortion Outreach
Orlando Women's Center
killing place
Monday
* 9am (ministry time 8:15-9:30
Presently NO Christians
Tuesday
12:30 (ministry time 11:45-1pm)
Wednesday
9am Late term killings (ministry time: 8:15-9:30am)
*1pm early killings (ministry time: 12:15-1:30am)
Need committed Christians
Thursday
* 9am (ministry time: 8:15-9:30am)
Presently NO Christians
Friday & Saturday
9am (ministry time: 8:15-9:30am & beyond)
Sunday
* 9:30am (ministry time: 8:45-10am)
Need committed Christians
Please note: Days and times are subject to change. We highly recommend that you RSVP if you plan on coming!
Friday, March 13, 2009
Why we don't say "God loves you!" to mothers who are murdering their babies
Why we don't say "God loves you!" to mothers who are murdering their babies
"The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned.
Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth.
In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36)."
-D.A. Carson
The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God, Crossway
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men,
who hold (or suppress) the truth in unrighteousness;
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has showed it to them.
For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,
even His eternal power and Godhead;
so that they are without excuse ...
Romans 1:18, 19
Is revealed. Not only by the declarations of the Holy Scriptures, and his judgments, but by nature's teachings, and by the human conscience.
There is a measure of truth revealed to every man. See Ro 1:19. Many refuse to profit by the light they have, and love the darkness rather than the light.
All who do not live up to the knowledge they possess, who do worse than they know, hold the truth in unrighteousness.
They obstruct the truth, rather than let it have free scope.
People's New Testment
The wrath of God is revealed - Not only by frequent and signal interpositions of divine providence, but likewise in the sacred oracles,
and by us, His messengers.
~ Wesley
For the wrath of God - His holy displeasure and righteous vengeance against sin.
is revealed from heaven - in the consciences of men, and attested by innumerable outward evidences of a moral government...
Ro 1:18-32. This Wrath of God, Revealed against All Iniquity, Overhangs the Whole Heathen World...
....their stifling the light which still remained to them. As darkness overspreads the mind, so impotence takes possession of the heart, when the "still small voice" of conscience is first disregarded, next thwarted, and then systematically deadened. Thus "the truth" which God left with and in men, instead of having free scope and developing itself, as it otherwise would, was obstructed (compare Mt 6:22, 23; Eph 4:17, 18).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
...no man can plead that he has fulfilled all his obligations to God and to his neighbour; nor can any=2 0truly say that he has fully acted up to the light afforded him. The sinfulness of man is described as ungodliness against the laws of the first table [1st five commandments], and unrighteousness against those of the second [last five]. The cause of that sinfulness is holding the truth in unrighteousness. All, more or less, do what they know to be wrong, and omit what they know to be right, so that the plea of ignorance cannot be allowed from any. Our Creator's invisible power and Godhead are so clearly shown in the works He has made, that even idolaters ... are left without excuse. They foolishly followed idolatry; and rational creatures changed the worship of the glorious Creator, for that of brutes ....[mostly idolizing self] They wandered from God ...had not the revelation of the gospel prevented it. For whatever may be pretended, as to the sufficiency of man's reason to discover Divine truth and moral obligation, or to govern the practice aright, facts cannot be denied. And these plainly show that men have dishonoured God by the most absurd idolatries and superstitions;and have degraded themselves by the vilest affections and most abominable deeds.
~ Matthew Henry
And yet, there is hope in Christ through His gospel!
...remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded=2 0from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise,
without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:12, 13
For those of us who have been saved by the grace of God & born again,
DO now have glorious hope that rests not on ourselves,
but in Christ, our Rock & our Salvation!
No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse.
Psalm 25:3
But woe unto those who turn not from sin, who trust not on Christ & who continue to be treacherous without excuse. These store up wrath against themselves for the Day of wrath.
But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's wrath,
when His righteous judgment will be revealed.
Romans 2:5
As we go out to the abortion mills may we remember that it is our solemn duty to warn the aborting mothers and fathers and their companions, who are under the just wrath of God for their evil scheme to murder the babies (as well as all of the other ways they have sinned against the Lord). We must speak to the clinic workers as well, not by assuring them that God loves them, but ...
by using the law of God lawfully.
But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill ... according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.
I Timothy 1:9 &11
Beloved, it is as much the business of God’s minister to preach man’s duty, as it is to preach Christ’s atonement; and unless he doth preach man’s duty, he will never be blessed of God to bring man into the proper state to see the beauty of the atonement. Unless he sometimes thunders out the law, and claims for his Master the right of obedience to it, he will never be very likely to produce conviction—certainly, not that conviction which afterwards leads to conversion. This rough world sometimes needs to be rebuked, and if we can get at the ears of the people, it is our business to reprove them; and I think if ever there was a time when this text need to be enlarged upon, it is just now. It is so often forgotten, so seldom remembered,
“Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
... Whom am I to love? My neighbour. What am I to do? I am to love him. How am I to do it? I am to love him as myself.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Let us now go and show our love and concern for our neighbors, both mother and child, and speak to them not flattery, but the truth as it is in Jesus.
Together for Life & Eternity,
Patte Smith
Sanctuary Ministries
www.sanctuaryministries.blogspot.com
www.abortionNO.org
"The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned.
Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth.
In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36)."
-D.A. Carson
The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God, Crossway
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men,
who hold (or suppress) the truth in unrighteousness;
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has showed it to them.
For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,
even His eternal power and Godhead;
so that they are without excuse ...
Romans 1:18, 19
Is revealed. Not only by the declarations of the Holy Scriptures, and his judgments, but by nature's teachings, and by the human conscience.
There is a measure of truth revealed to every man. See Ro 1:19. Many refuse to profit by the light they have, and love the darkness rather than the light.
All who do not live up to the knowledge they possess, who do worse than they know, hold the truth in unrighteousness.
They obstruct the truth, rather than let it have free scope.
People's New Testment
The wrath of God is revealed - Not only by frequent and signal interpositions of divine providence, but likewise in the sacred oracles,
and by us, His messengers.
~ Wesley
For the wrath of God - His holy displeasure and righteous vengeance against sin.
is revealed from heaven - in the consciences of men, and attested by innumerable outward evidences of a moral government...
Ro 1:18-32. This Wrath of God, Revealed against All Iniquity, Overhangs the Whole Heathen World...
....their stifling the light which still remained to them. As darkness overspreads the mind, so impotence takes possession of the heart, when the "still small voice" of conscience is first disregarded, next thwarted, and then systematically deadened. Thus "the truth" which God left with and in men, instead of having free scope and developing itself, as it otherwise would, was obstructed (compare Mt 6:22, 23; Eph 4:17, 18).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
...no man can plead that he has fulfilled all his obligations to God and to his neighbour; nor can any=2 0truly say that he has fully acted up to the light afforded him. The sinfulness of man is described as ungodliness against the laws of the first table [1st five commandments], and unrighteousness against those of the second [last five]. The cause of that sinfulness is holding the truth in unrighteousness. All, more or less, do what they know to be wrong, and omit what they know to be right, so that the plea of ignorance cannot be allowed from any. Our Creator's invisible power and Godhead are so clearly shown in the works He has made, that even idolaters ... are left without excuse. They foolishly followed idolatry; and rational creatures changed the worship of the glorious Creator, for that of brutes ....[mostly idolizing self] They wandered from God ...had not the revelation of the gospel prevented it. For whatever may be pretended, as to the sufficiency of man's reason to discover Divine truth and moral obligation, or to govern the practice aright, facts cannot be denied. And these plainly show that men have dishonoured God by the most absurd idolatries and superstitions;and have degraded themselves by the vilest affections and most abominable deeds.
~ Matthew Henry
And yet, there is hope in Christ through His gospel!
...remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded=2 0from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise,
without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:12, 13
For those of us who have been saved by the grace of God & born again,
DO now have glorious hope that rests not on ourselves,
but in Christ, our Rock & our Salvation!
No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse.
Psalm 25:3
But woe unto those who turn not from sin, who trust not on Christ & who continue to be treacherous without excuse. These store up wrath against themselves for the Day of wrath.
But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's wrath,
when His righteous judgment will be revealed.
Romans 2:5
As we go out to the abortion mills may we remember that it is our solemn duty to warn the aborting mothers and fathers and their companions, who are under the just wrath of God for their evil scheme to murder the babies (as well as all of the other ways they have sinned against the Lord). We must speak to the clinic workers as well, not by assuring them that God loves them, but ...
by using the law of God lawfully.
But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill ... according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.
I Timothy 1:9 &11
Beloved, it is as much the business of God’s minister to preach man’s duty, as it is to preach Christ’s atonement; and unless he doth preach man’s duty, he will never be blessed of God to bring man into the proper state to see the beauty of the atonement. Unless he sometimes thunders out the law, and claims for his Master the right of obedience to it, he will never be very likely to produce conviction—certainly, not that conviction which afterwards leads to conversion. This rough world sometimes needs to be rebuked, and if we can get at the ears of the people, it is our business to reprove them; and I think if ever there was a time when this text need to be enlarged upon, it is just now. It is so often forgotten, so seldom remembered,
“Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
... Whom am I to love? My neighbour. What am I to do? I am to love him. How am I to do it? I am to love him as myself.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Let us now go and show our love and concern for our neighbors, both mother and child, and speak to them not flattery, but the truth as it is in Jesus.
Together for Life & Eternity,
Patte Smith
Sanctuary Ministries
www.sanctuaryministries.blogspot.com
www.abortionNO.org
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