By Tom Ross
Pastor of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, Chesapeake, Ohio
Pastor of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, Chesapeake, Ohio
On January 20th, our church celebrated the sanctity of
human life. We rejoiced as we read and studied the inspired Scriptures that
prove God is the giver of all life, physical, spiritual, and eternal (Romans
6:23). We were blessed to learn that human life begins at conception, the very
moment when the 23 paternal and 23 maternal chromosomes come together to form an
individual in the protective womb of a mother. Our heart's were thrilled to
know that children are a blessing and an heritage of the Lord (Psalm 127:3), to
be nurtured, cherished, and trained in the ways of truth and godliness (Proverbs
22:6). We celebrated the sacred gift of life that is created and sustained by
our gracious God. Acts 17:24-29 declares: "God that made the world
and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth...seeing he
giveth to all life, and breath, and all things...For in him we live, and move,
and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also
his offspring. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of
God..."
Unfortunately, we also had to examine the origins of the culture of death that persists in our society. On January 22, 1973 the United States Supreme Court defied the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and decreed by judicial fiat that a woman could choose to abort or terminate the life of the child in her womb. In the 40 years since that infamous decision over 50 million babies have been aborted in the United States of America, according to the Centers of Disease Control. To put it into a statistical perspective it means that as a society we average 1.25 million abortions per year or 3,424 deaths per day. All of the American casualties in wars from the Revolution to the present day total 1.3 million. Hitler's atrocities in the Holocaust resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews, a number that pales in comparison to the 50 million innocent children that have been sacrificed on the "pro-choice" altar of the abortionist's surgical table.
The tragedy of the Connecticut shooting where 20 precious children lost their lives at the wicked hands of a madman still lingers in our minds. I can't help but think that this horrific event and others like it are the result of the culture of death that has been promoted in our society. Over the past 50 plus years our taxpayer funded government schools have been mandated to teach our children that there is no God, no Creator, and no moral law they are accountable to obey. I heard President Obama say that it is our responsibility as a culture to protect the most vulnerable in our society, namely our children. When President Obama was an Illinois state senator he voted to continue the atrocity of partial birth abortion. The most vulnerable children in all the world are those who are in the protected womb of their mother. Statistically, 3,424 children were aborted on the very same day of the Newtown murders. Yet there was no outrage by the media as the remains of aborted children were thrown away in cities across our land. Our politicians did not call for an immediate ban of abortionist scalpels and other instruments of torture used to terminate the lives of children in the womb. Progressives and Feminists have successfully changed the language that people use to describe a babe in the womb to that of an embryo, fetus, or tissue. However, they cannot explain away the violence against children that has contributed to the culture of death. Included in the list of things that God hates and considers to be an abomination are: "A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood" (Proverbs 6:17). May God be pleased to turn our nation back to one that celebrates life instead of death.
Unfortunately, we also had to examine the origins of the culture of death that persists in our society. On January 22, 1973 the United States Supreme Court defied the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and decreed by judicial fiat that a woman could choose to abort or terminate the life of the child in her womb. In the 40 years since that infamous decision over 50 million babies have been aborted in the United States of America, according to the Centers of Disease Control. To put it into a statistical perspective it means that as a society we average 1.25 million abortions per year or 3,424 deaths per day. All of the American casualties in wars from the Revolution to the present day total 1.3 million. Hitler's atrocities in the Holocaust resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews, a number that pales in comparison to the 50 million innocent children that have been sacrificed on the "pro-choice" altar of the abortionist's surgical table.
The tragedy of the Connecticut shooting where 20 precious children lost their lives at the wicked hands of a madman still lingers in our minds. I can't help but think that this horrific event and others like it are the result of the culture of death that has been promoted in our society. Over the past 50 plus years our taxpayer funded government schools have been mandated to teach our children that there is no God, no Creator, and no moral law they are accountable to obey. I heard President Obama say that it is our responsibility as a culture to protect the most vulnerable in our society, namely our children. When President Obama was an Illinois state senator he voted to continue the atrocity of partial birth abortion. The most vulnerable children in all the world are those who are in the protected womb of their mother. Statistically, 3,424 children were aborted on the very same day of the Newtown murders. Yet there was no outrage by the media as the remains of aborted children were thrown away in cities across our land. Our politicians did not call for an immediate ban of abortionist scalpels and other instruments of torture used to terminate the lives of children in the womb. Progressives and Feminists have successfully changed the language that people use to describe a babe in the womb to that of an embryo, fetus, or tissue. However, they cannot explain away the violence against children that has contributed to the culture of death. Included in the list of things that God hates and considers to be an abomination are: "A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood" (Proverbs 6:17). May God be pleased to turn our nation back to one that celebrates life instead of death.
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