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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

God is calling…all Christians to expose the dark and fruitless work of abortion: 1. To expose the fact that there are 1.5 million abortions in America every year – 27 million since the Supreme Court overturned the public conscience of 48 states 19 years ago. 2. To expose the fact that 30% of all babies conceived in America are killed by abortion. 3. To expose the fact that medically women are told not to have abortions before the seventh week of pregnancy (see the Yes/Neon booklet), and yet by the eighth week the heart of the baby has been beating for a month, there are measurable brain waves, there is response to touch, there's thumb-sucking, grasping with the hands, swimming with the arms in the amniotic fluid, distinct arms and legs and sexual organs. This much must—not may, must—be present before most abortion centers will cut the baby to pieces with a suction machine 4,000 times a day. 4. To expose the fact that 9,000 babies were killed after the 21st week of pregnancy in 1987, fully formed and on the brink of being able to breathe for themselves – killed, legally! 5. To expose the fact that in Minnesota we have a fetal homicide law that makes it 'murder to kill an embryo or fetus intentionally, except in cases of abortion' – in other words, it's unlawful to kill the unborn child unless the mother chooses to have it killed. And that is a strange and dark criterion for lawful killing. 6. To expose the fact that 'There is inescapable schizophrenia in aborting a perfectly normal 22 week fetus while at the same hospital, performing intra-uterine surgery on its cousin' (Steve Calvin). 7. To expose the fact that viability outside the womb is not a criterion of personhood and right to life, because we ourselves don't want to give up our personhood and our right to life if we must be sustained on a respirator or dialysis machine the way a baby has to be sustained by a placenta. 8. To expose the fact that the size and reasoning power of a tiny person is irrelevant to human personhood because if it were, we might allow tiny and unthinking newborns to be killed. 9. To expose the fact that genetically human embryos and fetuses are utterly different from all other animal life; if they are just left alone, with nothing added but nourishment, they will grow up. 10. To expose the fact that if it is unlawful to crush the egg of a bald eagle, it is not excessively restrictive to make it unlawful to crush the egg of a human. 11. To expose the fact that when two legitimate rights conflict – the right not to be pregnant and the right not to be killed – justice demands that we give place to the greater right, the right that does the least harm – the one that does not willfully kill. 12. To expose the fact that there are thousands of crisis pregnancy centers in this country ready to help, and almost all of them are free – unlike the abortion mills that charge plenty of money – and the older the baby, the more they charge. 13. To expose the fact that there are no unwanted babies in Minnesota. Mary Ann Kuharsky (President of ProLife Minnesota) said in the Tribune she would take any baby whose life depended on it, and there are hundreds like her. 14. To expose the fact that it is hypocritical to speak as though choice were the untouchable absolute in this matter and then turn around and oppose choice in matters of gun-control and welfare support and affirmative action and minimum wage and dozens of other issues where so-called pro-choice people join the demand that people's choices be limited to protect others. It's a sham argument. All choices are limited by life. 15. To expose the fact that trespassing to save life is not a crime and that it does not undermine our legal system, but on the contrary endorses the one foundation stone without which that legal system in this land will fall, namely, the inalienable right to life. There will be no law but the law of individual choice (=anarchy) if the foundation stone of life's value is destroyed. And abortion is destroying it.
John Piper

A famous cigarette billboard pictures a curly-headed, bronze-faced, muscular macho with a cigarette hanging out the side of his mouth. The sign says, 'Where a man belongs.' That is a lie. Where a man belongs is at the bedside of his children, leading in devotion and prayer. Where a man belongs is leading his family to the house of God. Where a man belongs is up early and alone with God seeking vision and direction for the family.
John Piper

    • Bible Reading: JUN16: Psalms 32-35

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    JUNE 16

    Psalm 32 is another song of penitence and was no doubt
    occasioned by David’s sin with Bathsheba. The background for this
    Psalm is II Samuel 11 and 12. David lusted after his neighbor’s
    wife, committed adultery, made the husband drunk, had him murdered,
    and then covered the whole affair for at least a year. David was not
    a young man when he fell into these sins; he was a mature man ruling
    over a great kingdom. In this Psalm David could find no words to
    express his shame and humiliation.

    I firmly believe there is a difference between a sin of
    weakness and a willful, habitual sin. A good man may sin, but,
    because of that sin, his heart will be broken. This was the case
    with David. He had sinned; he knew he had sinned; and his remorse
    showed him to be a good man. A wicked man is much different from
    David. He purposely, willfully, and habitually sins, with no
    remorse. There is no sorrow, or no repentance because of his sin.
    And he would commit the same sin again.

    Psalm 32 speaks of the wonderful forgiveness in Christ.
    Psalm 33 follows with joy and praise. We have no new song until we
    become children of God through the shed blood of Christ. In Psalm 34
    David thanks God for wonderful deliverance. In every trouble David
    went straight to God in prayer. At every deliverance he went
    directly to God in thanks and praise. What a glorious thing to thus
    live in God! Someone has said, “Thank God for the starlight, and He
    will give you the moonlight. Thank Him for the moonlight, and He
    will give you the sunlight. Thank Him for the sunlight, and by and
    by He will take you where He Himself is the Light.”

    Psalm 35 is a cry for help in distress and is known as an
    Imprecatory Psalm. Other such Psalms are 52, 58, 59, 69, 109, and
    137. They must be understood as the prayers of the godly in a day of
    great apostasy and violence. The Spirit of God prays through them
    for the destruction of the wicked. To see a conflict here with
    Jesus’ teaching of love and forgiveness is to misunderstand God’s
    holiness when His grace in Christ has been rejected.

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