Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you...  - Jeremiah 1:5

We live in a world filled with mind-boggling contradictions that many willingly buy as truth so long as it fits with society’s ever-evolving lifestyle changes. We love the word "freedom" in America. God himself must check his agenda at the door to our liberty.  Surely, he would not impinge upon our self-proclaimed human rights, and the old-fashioned and intrusive Bible must bow to our intellectual superiority and libertine mindset. Yet the contradictions remain, whether we want them to or not. A human embryo is a baby if he/she is wanted, with the weight of the law protecting the child against molestation. But should one decide that the child is unwanted, it is no longer human but now merely tissue, only a “fetus,” akin to one’s appendix, or a cancerous growth.

I always hesitate before I write an article like this because some of you reading it have subjected yourself (and more importantly, your baby) to an abortion. Everyone, whether reader or writer, has skeletons in their closet that they want no one to know about. What hypocrites we are all capable of being! What strangers we are to the holiness of God! Sexually pure or pornographically addicted. Opposite-sex or same-sex attracted. Monogamous or multi-partnered, married or divorced, male or female. What we all need desperately, every one of us, is a Savior.

We do not spend an abundance of our time here at LifePoint talking about abortion (or adultery, homosexuality, tax evasion, or any other particular sin), but we do believe in the sanctity of human life from conception to the grave. Our culture has thoroughly bought into the concept of abortion on demand. The abortion rights agenda is a virtual religion, with abortion on demand as its sacred sacrament. But it is only recently that the movers and shakers in our society have begun to speak openly of euthanasia (the death of the old or infirm by direct action). What was once called “impossible” in our society soon becomes perfectly acceptable (even demanded). It is only a matter of time before the lives of the elderly will be as expendable as the lives of the unborn in America. Think it cannot happen? Maybe you remember when abortion rights advocates utilized the phrase “rare, safe, and legal” in their campaigns. “Rare” has completely dropped out of that equation.  Enlightened America currently holds the most aggressive policies regarding abortion in the western hemisphere—far more aggressive than any European nation. Who holds equal or more aggressive laws regarding abortion, you may ask? Russia, China, North Korea. All three are thoroughly entrenched in atheistic naturalism and communism. We are in bad company.

This year, January 22 marks "Sanctity of Human Life Day."  Statistics do not serve justice to the wanton, legal, and government-sanctioned death toll since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, followed by most of our states relaxing abortion restrictions in the past three years since the Dobbs decision. Many Americans are more outraged at the deaths of 2,977 human beings during the events of 911 (horrific indeed) than we are at the estimated sixty-three million who have gone to their graves (or most commonly, incinerators) in America—directly from their mother's wombs.

God is a loving and forgiving God. There is forgiveness and mercy for repentant adulterers, perjurers, liars, cheats, homosexuals, heterosexuals, abortion seekers and providers. Jesus' death on the cross saves sinners, not merely by example, but in direct, significant, and life-altering ways. If you have fled to Jesus and called on him for mercy, hope abounds. Find that hope and forgiveness in Jesus, but do not depart from the unflinching biblical truth that life is a gift from God, from conception to the grave.  Those who take innocent life must answer one day to the Lord of life. When that day comes for you, and be assured it will, will you have Jesus there in your defense? That is the only place that my hope lies, because like you, I find myself included in one manner or another in virtually every list of vices articulated in Scripture.

My prayer is that we, the believers who make up LifePoint Church, will neither condemn those who have committed sin and have turned to Jesus for salvation nor turn a blind eye to the impact sin has upon our individual and collective lives. The truth is oftentimes hard to swallow, but it is so much better than the reality that awaits us on the other side of indifference.

Grace and peace,

Pastor Jym

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