This Should Make You Sick!

As things are heating up on the political stage over government funding of abortion and government forcing religious organizations such as hospitals and universities to provide contraceptives and abortions to their employees as part of the healthcare plans the offer, even if it is against the religious  beliefs of the organization, I have been thinking about not only our religious freedom that is guaranteed under our Constitution, but also about the millions of lives that have been lost to abortion in our country since the legalization of abortion in 1973. And as I have been thinking about this I realized that in the almost 5 years that I have been writing this blog I have done very few posts about the tragedy of abortion, and it is time to correct that.

Yesterday as I was reading headlines on the internet trying to get up to speed on the day's news I saw one that grabbed my attention; the title of the article was 19 Facts About Abortion In America That Should Make You Very Sick. With my interest piqued I clicked on the link, and here is what I read:

19 Facts About Abortion In America That Should Make You Very Sick

Every single day, a silent horror kills more Americans than were killed on 9/11. Every single year, this silent horror kills about as many Americans as have been killed on all the battlefields in all of the wars in U.S. history combined. This silent horror is called abortion, and it is a national disgrace. Overall, more than 50 million babies have been slaughtered since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. We have become a nation with so little regard for human life that nobody even really talks that much about this issue anymore.  But the truth is that it is at the very core of what is wrong with America. As I have written about previously, we have become a nation that is obsessed with population control, and we have been exporting this sick philosophy all over the globe.  As you read this, there are workers from U.S. organizations and UN organizations (both funded by your tax dollars) that are on the other side of the world setting up "family planning services" for women in poor countries. The goal of these organizations (just like we see in the United States) is to reduce the number of poor children being born. The sick control freaks that run things have decided that overpopulation is a plague that must be eradicated and that mass murder is the answer. Unfortunately, there are very few people that are still willing to speak out strongly against abortion in America. So the carnage is just going to go on and on and on.What will the history books say about a nation that murdered 50 million of its own babies?

The following are 19 facts about abortion in America that should make you very sick....

#1 There have been more than 53 million abortions performed in the United States since Roe v. Wade was decided back in 1973.

#2 When you total up all forms of abortion, including those caused by the abortion drug RU 486, the grand total comes to more than a million abortions performed in the United States every single year.

#3 The number of American babies killed by abortion each year is roughly equal to the number of U.S. military deaths that have occurred in all of the wars that the United States has ever been involved in combined.

#4 Approximately 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of the destruction of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11.  Every single day, more than 3,000 American babies are killed by abortion.

#5 It has been reported that a staggering 41 percent of all New York City pregnancies end in abortion.

#6 According to Pastor Clenard Childress, approximately 52 percent of all African-American pregnancies now end in abortion.

#7 One very shocking study found that 86 percent of all abortions are done for the sake of convenience.

#8 According to the Guttmacher Institute, the average cost of a first trimester abortion at the ten week mark is $451.

#9 The average cost of a vaginal birth with no complications in the United States is now over $9,000.

#10 A Department of Homeland Security report that was released in January 2012 says that if you are "anti-abortion", you are a potential terrorist.  Unfortunately, there have also been other government reports that have also identified "anti-abortion" protesters as potential threats.

#11 A while back one Philadelphia abortionist was charged with killing seven babies that were born alive, but witnesses claim that he actually slaughtered hundreds "of living, breathing newborn children by severing their spinal cords or slitting their necks."

#12 Some abortion clinics have been caught selling aborted baby parts to medical researchers.

#13 Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger once said the following....

"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."

#14 In a 1922 book entitled "Woman, Morality, and Birth Control", Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger wrote the following....

"Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race."

#15 Planned Parenthood performs more than 300,000 abortions every single year.

#16 Planned Parenthood specifically targets the poor.  A staggering 72 percent of Planned Parenthood's "customers" have incomes that are either equal to or beneath 150 percent of the federal poverty level.

#17 There are 30 Planned Parenthood executives that make more than $200,000 a year.  A few of them make more than $300,000 a year.

#18 Planned Parenthood received more than 487 million dollars from the federal government during 2010.

#19 The following is one description of the five steps of a partial birth abortion....

1) Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's legs with forceps.
2) The baby's leg is pulled out into the birth canal.
3) The abortionist delivers the baby's entire body, except for the head.
4) The abortionist jams scissors into the baby's skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the skull.
5) The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child's brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.

How can we murder our own children?

Unfortunately, there are organizations out there such as Planned Parenthood that spend millions upon millions of dollars trying to convince the American people that abortion is okay.  Just check out this jaw dropping propaganda video.

And every single year, politicians from both political parties continue to vote to give hundreds of millions of our tax dollars to Planned Parenthood.

Our politicians talk about how we need to spread our values to the rest of the world, but what kind of "values" do we really have when we have such little respect for human life?

There is no hope for America as long as this mass slaughter of innocent children continues to go on all across the United States.

Please share this list of facts about abortion in America with as many people as you can.  We need to wake the American people up.  Most Americans spend their days in an entertainment-induced haze and take very little time to think about the issues that really matter.

And if you think that the issue of abortion does not matter, then you are dead wrong.

The mass murder of more than 50 million American babies is something that cannot be ignored.

Their blood is crying out to us from the ground where it has been spilled.

Yes, this article is going to make a lot of people uncomfortable, but it is the truth.

Isn't it time that someone started telling the truth in America?

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/19-facts-about-abortion-in-america-that-should-make-you-very-sick

The author of this article is correct - this should make us sick! And as Christians we should be on our knees before the throne of God in repentance for not doing all we can to stop this murder of the most innocent and helpless among us. It is no wonder that our country is in the mess it is, how in the world can we imagine that God will bless us while this is going on in our land?

Does Repetitive Sin Mean We Aren't Saved?

In this short video Hank Hanegraaff, The Bible Answer Man, explains the Gospel, talks about the difference between justification and sanctification, and explains how we can overcome sin and experience security in our salvation. Take a few minutes to watch...

Merry Christmas

The Restless Bed

Here is an excerpt from James Smith’s Food for Hungry Souls. This was sent out by Grace Gems last week and is worth taking the time to read and then meditate on what he said.

[I have added some comments throughout]

The Restless Bed

• What is sown now--will be reaped in eternity.
• Eternal life is the free gift of a gracious God.
• Eternal punishment is the just wages of eternal sin.
• We deserve Hell now [this is an important point that we would all do well to remember]--but we may escape it by fleeing to Jesus.
•  If we refuse to do so--then we can only expect to reap the fruit of our folly. 
• Heaven is the gift of God's grace--but Hell is the wages of sin. [see Romans 6:23]
• Every sinner makes his own Hell. In this light, let us look at the words of the Psalmist:

"If I make my bed in Hell." Psalm 139:8

THE RESIDENCE. "In Hell." 

WHAT is Hell?

• Hell is the prison--in which the prisoners of God's justice are confined.
• Hell is where punishment is inflicted on all who die at enmity with God.
• Hell is the place where Satan acts the part of the chief tormentor.
• Hell is the place where conscience, armed with terrible power, torments the guilty soul.
• Hell is the place where reflection, aided by a strong and tenacious memory, afflicts without mercy or cessation.
• Hell is the place where God frowns justly and eternally on the naked soul.
• Hell is the place where everything calculated to . . .satiate with terror, fill with agony, and
  torture with pain, exist.
• While everything calculated to inspire hope, give pleasure, or impart relief--is excluded forever.

WHO is in Hell?

• Satan and his demons--all those foul, wicked, and degraded spirits--who are filled with envy, malice, and enmity against God and man.
• All unrepentant sinners--of all classes, creeds, places, and periods.
• All who have . . .stained the world with their crimes, afflicted others with their cruelties, and degraded themselves by their vices.
• All the lowest, vilest, and basest of the human race!
• God is there too, in his glorious majesty, almighty power, impartial justice, and awesome holiness! O how it will aggravate the sufferings of the lost--to have God's eye always fixed upon them, and the justice, holiness, and majesty of God ever shining before them!

[This is a point we often overlook; I have heard many people say that Hell will be Hell because God is not there, but I contend that Hell is Hell because God is there, and those in Hell will face His holiness and justice and wrath against sin, in their fullness, without the shield of Jesus Christ, for all eternity – that is what makes Hell Hell]

WHAT is in Hell?

• Justice with its flaming sword--is there.
• Memory stored with the whole history of one’s life--is there.
• The worm that gnaws the vitals of the soul, but never dies--is there.
• The fire that cannot be quenched, which tortures but never destroys our nature--is there.

• But there is no Bible there.
• There is no gospel with its joyful sound.
• There is no gentle, loving Savior.
• There is no loving friend or dear relation.
• There is nothing to lessen or alleviate suffering!
• Hell concentrates in itself, all the elements of misery, degradation, wretchedness and woe!

THE REST. "My bed." "If I make my bed in Hell."

• Rest in Hell? A bed in Hell? What kind of a bed could that be?
• A bed composed of the thorns of bitter reflection.
• A bed made up of the terrible inflictions of incensed justice.
• A bed embracing . . .the horrors of a guilty conscience, the blackness and darkness of despair, the ceaseless outpouring of the vials of the wrath of God!
• This bed is . . .ever heaving--like the restless ocean; ever sinking--like a millstone, in the bottomless depths; ever burning--like a lake of liquid brimstone; and ever inflicting torments--beyond description or conception.
• "MY bed"--the bed I procured by a life of sin.
• "MY bed"--the bed I deserve for rejecting the Savior, and neglecting the great salvation.
• "MY bed"--the bed awarded me by a just and holy God.
• My OWN bed--the only bed I can claim; the only bed I can expect; that bed for which I labored; and which is the righteous wages of my sin.
• My OWN bed--the only bed I shall have forever!
• My OWN bed--on which there can be no rest day nor night. Ever wakeful, ever weary, ever cursing and condemning myself--here on my infernal bed--I am doomed, and justly doomed to lie forever!

THE EMPLOYMENT. "If I make my bed in Hell."

Every man makes his own bed, and on the bed he makes for himself--he must forever lie.

What are sinners on earth doing? Making their bed in Hell!

• Drunkard--you are making your bed in Hell, and a terrible bed it will be!
• Dishonest man, by your tricks in trade, and various dishonest practices--you are making your bed in Hell, and an awful bed it will be!
• Liar, by your falsehoods and deception--you are making your bed in Hell--and a liar's bed will burn with brimstone and with fire!
• Profane swearer--you also are preparing for yourself, a dreadful couch!
• Promiscuous man--the lusts you indulge now, will entwine about your soul like serpents, and sting and poison you, on your bed in Hell forever!
• Hypocrite, pretending to be religious, when you know that you are not--I suppose few will have a more racking or torturing bed to lie on forever--than you will!
• Careless sinner--you are making your bed in Hell, and you will perhaps repent of it when it is too late.
• Trifling professor, worldly-minded church member--you too are making your bed in Hell, and it is to be feared that many will go from the church of God on earth--to be tormented forever on a bed in Hell!

There is a Hell--an eternal Hell. Justice provided it originally for the devil and his demons--but there is room in it for rebellious men, and if they die impenitent--they will be forever doomed to it! No one will have a place in Hell, who does not richly merit and deserve it. Hell is just wages--for present sinful work. "The wages of sin is death"--eternal death. O terrible thought, to be working so hard on earth--only to receive the wages of eternal punishment in Hell!

"If I make my bed in Hell."

• Young man--what if you should make your bed in Hell? It will be your own act and deed.
• Young woman--what if you should make your bed in Hell? And you may--for the dance, the ball-room, pride of dress, and neglect of God, without any grosser vices--will be sufficient to prepare for you a bed in Hell!
• Aged man--what if you should make your bed in Hell? What a dreadful close--to a long and trying life on earth.
• Aged woman--is it possible that you should make your bed in Hell? It is--and more than possible!
• Religious man--what if you should make your bed in Hell? What if after all your prayers, sacraments, and contributions to religious societies--your bed should be in Hell! And it will--if you are not found in Christ!

It does not matter--whether young or old, whether professor or profane--unless you are washed in the blood of Jesus;unless you are sanctified by the Spirit of God; unless you are reconciled to God by the death of His Son--you will certainly make your bed in Hell.

Look well to it, then, I beseech you--that you have saving faith in Christ, and that you are regenerated by the Holy Spirit--for without true holiness, no one can see the Lord. [see Hebrews 12:14] Without holiness--you will certainly make your bed in Hell!

~James Smith

Does Man Have Free Will?

Here is a really good video that answers the question above from a Biblical perspective.

No Man Ever Thought Too Much Of Christ

Let us embrace this truth reverently, and cling to it firmly. Christ is He who has the keys of death and hell. Christ is the anointed Priest, who alone can absolve sinners. Christ is the fountain of living waters, in whom alone we can be cleansed. Christ is the Prince and Savior, who alone can give repentance and remission of sins. In Him all fullness dwells. He is the way, the door, the light, the life, the Shepherd, the altar of refuge. He that has the Son has life--and he that has not the Son has not life. May we all strive to understand this. No doubt men may easily think too little of God the Father, and God the Spirit, but no man ever thought too much of Christ.

J.C. Ryle

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels Vol 1: Matthew & Mark pg.409

The Wrath Of God

Heaven & Hell

What really happened on the cross, and what does that mean to you? Pastor R.W. Glenn answers those questions in this sermon.

The Doctrine Of Propitiation

J.C. Ryle On The Eternality Of Hell

As I was reading this morning I found this by J.C. Ryle talking about Hell being eternal. This is something that we all should think about daily, because we all know many people who do not know Jesus Christ and if they die in this state, this is their end.

Jesus said:

"The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born."

Matthew 26:24

Of this verse J.C. Rule wrote:

Let us learn... from [this] verse, the hopeless condition of all who die unconverted. The words of our Lord on this subject are peculiarly solemn. He says of Judas, "It would have been better for that man, if he had not been born." This saying admits of only one interpretation. It teaches plainly, that it is better never to live at all, than to live without faith, and to die without grace. To die in this state is to be ruined forever more. It is a fall from which there is no rising. It is a loss which is utterly irretrievable. There is no change in hell. The gulf between hell and heaven is one that no man can pass. This saying could never have been used, if there was any truth in the doctrine of 'universal salvation'. If it really was true that all would sooner or later reach heaven, and hell sooner or later be emptied of inhabitants, it never could be said that it would have been "good for a man not to have been born." Hell itself would lose its terrors, if it had an end. Hell itself would be endurable, if after millions of ages there was a HOPE of freedom and of heaven. But universal salvation will find no foot-hold in Scripture. The teaching of the word of God is plain and express on the subject. There is a worm that never dies, and a fire that is not quenched (Mark 9:44.) "Except a man be born again," he will wish one day he had never been born at all. "Better," says Burkitt, "have no being, than not have a being in Christ."

Let us grasp this truth firmly, and not let it go. There are always people who dislike the reality and eternity of hell. We live in a day when a morbid charity induces many to exaggerate God's mercy, at the expense of His justice, and when false teachers are daring to talk of a "love of God, lower even than hell." Let us resist such teaching with a holy jealousy, and abide by the doctrine of Holy Scripture. Let us not be ashamed to walk in the old paths, and to believe that there is an eternal God, an eternal heaven, and an eternal hell. Once depart from this belief, and we admit the thin edge of the wedge of skepticism, and may at last deny any doctrine of the Gospel. We may rest assured that there is no firm standing ground between a belief in the eternity of hell, and downright infidelity.

J.C. Ryle

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels Vol 1: Matthew & Mark pg. 354