Folks, we have all been passing this scripture around and
asking for prayer…this is a very good thing, but we have ignored what the Lord is
actually saying. There is a condition in this verse, “turn from your wicked
ways”. He is talking to His people here “My people”. Who were God’s people and why
were they seeking God? In Israel at that time there was a terrible drought, locusts
and pestilence (illness). The study notes in my Modern Life Study Bible say
this: “God’s pledge to heal the land was not unconditional. In order for the
Lord to fulfill His part of this agreement with the Israelites, there were
certain stipulations: The conditions: Humility, prayer and seeking God’s face, Turning
from wickedness”
Friends,
we have sat by quietly and by our complacency (I’m guilty of this for sure),
allowed these very laws to become the law of our own land. We made legal the
thing that is an abomination to God. Here is just one of many I found: Romans
1:26-27 “For this cause God
gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural
use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the
natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men
working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of
their error which was meet.” Enough
said!
We voted to allow babies
to be aborted for our convenience.
The following quote is
from a Christian website: Ratio Christi https://ratiochristi.org/
In the Old Testament
“Several passages in both the Old and New Testaments could be cited
to support the idea that God recognizes that human life begins in the
womb. Isiah 44:24 we read, “This is what the LORD says— your
Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the LORD, the Maker of all things,
who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself, “ Note that
the Lord clearly says He formed us “in the womb”.
Then there is Exodus 21:22 “If men fight and hit a pregnant
woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no serious injury, he
will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman’s husband demands of
him, and he will pay what the court decides.” Here we note that it
is a “child” that is born prematurely Psalms 139:13 says, “For you created
my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” Again,
the image of being formed as a human being in the womb.
New Testament support
for abortion?
One final example will really drive home the point. In Luke:41-44
we see the meeting of Mary, who is pregnant with Jesus, and her cousin Mary,
who is also pregnant with John the Baptist. “when Elizabeth heard the
salutation of Mary, the infant leapt in her womb.” Then in verses
42 to 44, Elizabeth “cried out with a loud voice, and said: ‘… For behold as
soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in my ears, the infant in my womb
leapt for joy.’” So much for trying to establish
Biblically that life begins with the first breath.”
Many of us as
Christians have turned our backs on our neighbors, co-workers, and others who
don’t know Jesus as Savior. Believe it or not, in this day of immediate access
to information, there are people, probably in our own neighborhoods, who don’t
know Jesus. We are sitting around our home and in our churches and letting the
world quietly go to hell!
We need to ask God for
forgiveness and get up out of our pews, our comfy den in front of the TV, and
go out into the marketplace, the highways, and byways and talk about Jesus. We
need to get down on our knees and ask God to forgive us! Then Maybe God will forgive
our sin and heal our land!
