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It is staggering to me now, looking back, how it is many so close after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. did not among the many moral issues related to Civil Rights galvanize against abortion as it made its way to the 1973 Supreme Court decision. Who could be more disenfranchised than an unborn child targeted for murder? Important figures in the Civil Rights Movement actually endorsed and advocated for abortion to make it as it is to this day for them a matter of women’s rights. Like ancient Israel forced to turn back from entering the Promised Land and wander in the wilderness because of unbelief, so, the Civil Rights Movement turned left away from biblical morality on abortion and other issues into the spiritual wilderness of sin seeking allies of mortal flesh rather than God (Numbers 14:11-25; Proverbs 14:34).
Even the most casual reading of the Bible will yield the straightforward understanding that human life is precious to God, humanity’s Creator (Genesis 4:8-15; Exodus 20:13; Mark 10:17-19). So, in this edited 2010 Commentary I have combined with a similar 2012 blog, I declare that men in the lead and women are to protect their children whose existence actually begins in the mind of God long before conception which He is also intimately involved with (Isaiah 45:1-7)! Therefore, in a biblical worldview, not only is abortion murder for the guilty parents, but also all who advocate for and perform it as accomplices. They will be held accountable by God in this life and on Judgment Day unless they embrace their only recourse I write about in this post.
Originally Published January 2010
Here in Portland, Oregon, Planned Parenthood the birth control and abortion provider is soon to finish construction on a new facility in an area that has been traditionally populated by black Americans. This is strategic on their part since black females have more abortions than any other racial group.1 Yet, the silence of most black clergy and open advocacy of others has been shocking. In the peaceful protests I have attended it has been primarily our white brethren that have represented the very clear scriptural mandate to revere human life (Genesis 9:5-7); life that begins at conception in the handiwork of God our Creator (Psalm 139:13-16; Zechariah 12:1).
Abortion as a concept at its root is not a black or white racial issue nor is it about women's rights. Men and women from all hues should be vitally concerned about what is very thoroughly a spiritual and moral matter. Men--especially those that aspire to be strong men of God in Christ's image--ought to be deeply affected by the slaughter of defenseless human lives. God has wired us with a heart like His and holds us responsible to defend the defenseless (Psalms 68:5-6, 82:1-4). But with steely precision abortionists around this nation routinely kill the unborn men have fathered for the sake of parental convenience. I know all about the convenience thing.
As a teenage father before I came to Christ, I either pushed for or passively offered no objection to the killing of my children on a number of occasions with different females.2 Years later I still wonder at times how I could have been so selfish and deceived. Then I remember the deceitful craftiness of the god of this world and my own fallen nature as a sinner and come to my senses. Spiritually speaking, we kill our unborn because we are dead in our sins to God and purposely deceived. It is not rocket science to understand the matter-of-fact reason we do so either: if there is no baby, then there is no responsibility or possible change in life plans.
Satan’s deceptive spin last century that morphed abortion from an issue of biblical morality into one that has to do with a woman’s rights over her body is of the success he enjoyed with Eve in Eden (Genesis 3:1-6a; 1 Timothy 2:14). And if they are not the instigators, just as Adam did not intervene while Satan deceived his wife and passively followed her lead in disobedience (Genesis 3:6b), so, many men today are doing the same thing in the decision to kill their unborn children. But now, made alive by God to God through faith in Christ, I have received forgiveness and instruction from His Word to fulfill all of my responsibilities as a father to my children (Ephesians 2:1-10).
In a truth I fully explain in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics, none other than God the Father Himself has shown us men what a father is and does.3 Besides initiating Adam's existence, the Father also led, taught, provided for and protected him. In protecting Adam, God put him in the Garden of Eden as a shelter among other reasons and watched over him (Genesis 2:7-18). Even when Satan came to the garden please note he was not allowed to touch Adam or his wife, but only to deceive them if he could (Genesis 3:1-6). If it had been left up to the devil he would have killed the two humans where they stood (John 8:44). But God protected them!
God has given all men the responsibility to protect the lives we initiate through our seed released in the sexual intimacy of marriage or otherwise as well as those that are adopted. Our responsibility begins the moment of conception and continues until the new or adopted life attains the age of majority and departs from under our protective care (Matthew 1:18-25 2:13-15, 19-23; Luke 2:41-52). When men demand or passively allow the death of their children through abortion, it is a purposeful rejection of the responsibility that God has assigned to and holds us accountable for. We may only drop them off at the clinic, but we are just as guilty as the women for the murder that takes place.
So now, in these latter days Satan has gotten us to do legally what he was forbidden to do thousands of years ago in the garden: murder human life! For the record, only the bodies of the unborn are destroyed. God takes their spirits and souls back to Himself in Heaven to await the resurrection (Ecclesiastes 12:6-7). However, the parent's lives are eternally destroyed without repentance. Therefore, let every man and woman reading this who is guilty turn to God in all confession and repentance from your sins. By faith receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ believing that He died on the cross for our sins, was buried and rose again on the third day. All who sincerely do this will receive God’s forgiveness, healing, instruction, a restored mind and heart with eternal life!
Unlike in our former godless and selfish mindset, God expects His sons and aspiring strong men in the image of Christ to welcome the pregnancy of our wives with joy and thanksgiving to Him! His sons are never to father children out of wedlock. However, if this should happen, in repentance He wills that you embrace your child and the mother in marriage if possible. In all instances, we are to fulfill our responsibilities to our children to include protecting them with the wisdom, help and strength God supplies. Also, brothers, stand up like men indwelt by the living God and speak out against the slaughter of the defenseless unborn in the protecting responsibility He has given us. The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, "Who is on the Lord's side?"
1 "Abortion Number For African-Americans Rising," Life In Oregon, April-June 2008 Issue, p. 7. Also, see black Abortion Facts on theurbanprophet.org Web Site. The
facility referenced was completed and remains a hub of activity.
2 That God may always be glorified in His amazing work to save and transform sinners through my life; I share my shame at having been an unsaved, unmarried and ire-
sponsible teenage father of two children that lived, but others that were murdered in their mother’s wombs. I am not just some moralizing preacher who knows nothing
at all about the real fear and selfishness that goes into the decision to abort or after birth, abandon a child God has charged men in the lead with the responsibility to pro-
tect.
3 The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics is available through all major internet booksellers, by order from your favorite brick and mortar bookstore and in the
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In having made reference to Harvey Weinstein and the sex scandal spinning around him as I did in the introduction to last week’s blog, in follow up, I am led by the Lord not to judge him, but to declare His Word on the ancient use of sex as a tool of power and ambition. Let me be biblically correct from the outset: all sex outside of male and female marriage is sin--period (Genesis 2:18-25)! The beautiful sexual intimacy of marriage God intends for a man and his wife outside of that framework is not only immoral in His eyes, but cheapened and degraded. This is all the more so when sex becomes a medium of exchange for anything including the promise of success in any career field.
Before going further, let me also say that a man should make no further advances on a woman after being firmly rebuffed by her.1 All touching of a female’s body (genitals, breasts, legs, buttocks or any other parts she asks not to be touched) is inappropriate and out of bounds. Intimate touching is to be considered private foreplay between a man and his wife (Proverbs 30:18-19). Rape, of course, is sin before God and men with even a tiny bit of morality and conscience (Genesis 34). Men know all of this, but the tempting work of demons, testosterone driven lust, deceitfulness of sin to include arrogance, conceit, pride, selfishness and evil mindedness easily overrule doing what is right.2
Thus, female prostitution is of the oldest professions and rape, of the oldest crimes on earth because sinful men--many as passionate hedonists--believe they have the manifest right and entitlement to be sexually gratified by women as need, convenience and opportunity present themselves. A natural historical development was that the most powerful of men could command the sexual indulgence of large numbers of women as wives, concubines and slaves (1 Kings 11:1-3). Of the most stinging pain American slavery still holds for many black American males is the sexual abuse and rape of our slave foremothers in some cases even while married to slave husbands.
From such positions of power, typically men have exploited women for sex in exchange for granting them their ambitions. Sinners too and no dummies, rather than as victims, many women have purposely and wickedly leveraged their bodies and sexual talents to manipulate lust filled men weak and powerful to gain what they were after. “You got to use what you got, to get what you want.” So goes the modern female line with roots in very ancient times. In the Bible, Tamar posed as a face covered prostitute to be impregnated by her father-in-law, Judah, (Genesis 38) as one example and Bathsheba surely knew who David was as another (2 Samuel 11:1-5).
Then there are the seductresses like Delilah with Samson who use sex to conquer a man for their own ends and/or payment by their benefactors (Judges 16:1-20). Some are simply in it for the sport and prize of owning a man’s soul as Solomon warns (Proverbs 6:20-7:27). Others, as women of power, pursue men of their choosing (a fact cheered by some feminists today). Potiphar’s wife with Joseph, an aspiring strong man of God is an example.3 In this rare occasion of being rejected, she took vengeance by falsely and successfully crying rape (Genesis 39:1-20). This, by the way, illustrates the ability women still have to this very day to ruin men with false sexual accusations.
As Solomon pensively resigns, “there is nothing new under the sun,” (Ecclesiastes 1:9-10, NKJV). More and more women entering the predominantly male work force from the beginning of the industrial revolution until now has seen incidences of male exploitation, harassment and molestation increase. Because of sin, expect this to continue. Hollywood among the industries of recent invention has had moguls such as Harvey Weinstein as accused, to take sexual advantage of female ambitions for stardom. And while much is being made of how wrong this is as it should be, in all balance, the Lord would equally have female aspirants check their character and souls and consider whether ambition for whatever is worth using sex as a means to achieving it (Mark 8:36-37).
Indeed, for do you not know that ambition for anything of this passing world enough to sell your soul or body for is evil (Genesis 3:1-13, 25:29-34; Hebrews 12:12-17)? What all seem to be missing in this current blame game is that the living God is holding accountable both sinful men and women as perpetrators and self-described victims of using sex as a medium of exchange for whatever reasons. Everyone now saying, “me too” that kept silent for the sake of career aspirations rather than real fear of bodily harm or forgiveness; who invited, welcomed or were flattered by advances, sexual language, touches or attempts to “make love” is a deceitful hypocrite with no innocence before God holy, true and just who judges (Psalm 69:5; Proverbs 30:20; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Jeremiah 17:9-10)!
Therefore, neither active seducers, promiscuous fornicators, adulterers, pornographers or exploiters, harassers, abusers, molesters, rapists, prostitutes, pimps or sex traffickers of any human being will endure before God without consequence now and lacking repentance and faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, eternally on Judgment Day (1 Corinthians 6:18; 2 Corinthians 5:9-11; Hebrews 13:4; Revelation 21:8). Let all of the guilty then, repent now! And for all that are true victims of sex related human sin, repent of any bitterness against the perpetrator(s) among your sins and turn to Christ as well in order to receive God’s forgiveness. Then, having been forgiven, be healed in God’s power to forgive those that have harmed you (Mark 11:25-26; Romans 12:1-2; Ephesians 4:30-32).4
1 Ladies, this means you are not and will not be playing coy or hard to get in the ancient game of male pursuit and female “catch me if you can.” Your seriously firm no is
“game over!”
2 As a lightweight wannabe “player” (translated smooth fornicator seeking sexual conquests) in my youth and early young adult years, I was confused at times by females
that gave mixed signals about their interest level in having sex. A half-hearted “no” with the allowance of deep kissing and heavy petting was (and is by most aroused
men) received as an invitation to continue the pursuit which in that wicked mindset, makes the eventual conquest much more gratifying. On the flip side, as I am shameful-
ly aware from those past days, men caught up can easily be construed as having attempted rape when pressing the pursuit after the half-hearted “no” remains consistent.
So, the best policy to follow even with one’s wife not in the mood is to accept “no” as “no” and stop right then. Thank God we Christian men have supernatural help (if
sought) to exercise His “self-control,” (Galatians 5:22-25, NKJV)!
3 Joseph is among men of the Bible I hold up in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics available at all major internet booksellers and in the Strong Man Store.
In an important Appendix of the book, I also speak to Christian men about appropriate sexual conduct before God.
4 Having been molested as a child by two different female teen babysitters and escaped the attempt by a non-immediate family male relative, I know the truth of what I write.
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