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California
Elections
God Will Not Be Mocked
By Bud Reeves
Early this morning I got a call from a dear
friend. “I’m just so sad. They all lost. Proposition 73 lost.” We
indeed should be sad, but not because of the failure of the propositions,
rather the failures of the church.
Many of you may remember that the people of
this state had the opportunity to elect a governor, a Godly man with a
solid record of supporting issues dear to the sanctity of human life. The
voters, led by many Christian radio talk show hosts, including a great
number of prolife “born again” Christians and
prolife Catholics, voted for the “Terminator”,
having believed the lie that the good guy, Tom McClintock, could not win.
This was the great compromise that has resulted in what ungodly compromise
leads to; sustained evil.
Sohlnet
and Teens for Life took a team to the terminator’s big Capitol rally in
the days prior to the election, making clear with signs and distributed
literature, that a vote for a man who supported abortion and homosexual
rights, was a grave compromise, an alignment with darkness that Christians
should have nothing to do with (Eph. 5:11). My heart ached at that rally
as I saw Christian prolifers proudly wearing their red, white and blue
emblazoned “Arnold” pins.
God will not be mocked. When Christians
support candidates who openly endorse a bloody act of murder that kills
4000 boys and girls in the womb daily, a sin hated by and grievous to our
God, they are mocking God. Christians are implored by Holy Scripture to
pray for these kinds of people, not put them in positions of government
where they can help maintain the culture of death.
Christians in my circle of contacts prayed
for the passage of Proposition 73 measure that would require the
notification of the mother or dad of a minor mom who desired to brutally
kill the little one in her womb. We reasoned that if passed, at least an
estimated 25,000 kids might be saved from the abortionist’s tools of
destruction in California. It now looks like 55 percent of the voters
turning out in California thought this life saving measure to not be
reasonable.
You may reason that the Planned
Parenthood’s “No on 73” campaign prevailed. Yes, true in a sense, but
this pagan giant and its allies prevailed not because of their money,
influence or advertising. They won by default because like Saul and his
scared- to-death army, the church shakes in its pulpits and pews when one
of the warriors in the church suggests that we confront this demon.
Rather than confront this killer, it boasts that it is supporting the
local facility that picks up and attempts to heal those wounded by the
giant. Yes, we are to be and support the healers, but not at the exclusion
of going to war. Rather than confront the giant in their community, they
find reasons to denounce the warriors rather than the giants. “The
pictures of what the giant is doing to our children are offensive. It
will hurt the children. We agree that the giant should be slain, but we
must not be offensive in confronting him.” How pathetically sad!
Friends of life.
We are losing because we are disobedient, unrepentant and are mocking our
God. We mock him when in the sanctuary we sing warrior songs about
slaying the enemy, trampling injustice, and taking back his ground, but
refuse to go to war. Our songs are empty. We mock God when we sing of
being warriors but we are so gripped by fear (Saul’s disease) that we
never engage, we just sing, or fantasize about being warriors. This kind
of worship is the very kind described in the first chapter of Isaiah.
“Your
celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath day, and your special days
for fasting—even your most pious meetings—are all sinful and false. I want
nothing more to do with them. 14I
hate all your festivals and sacrifices. I cannot stand the sight of them! 15From
now on, when you lift up your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look. Even
though you offer many prayers, I will not listen. For your hands are
covered with the blood of your innocent victims.” (Isa
1:13-15 NLT)
Yes,
we share in the shedding of innocent blood and our hands are blood
stained. More than half of the abortions are being performed on
Christians. Our silence ensures that the cycle of generational abortion
will continue. Most of the moms have never heard their pastor or priest
tell them what God and the Bible have to say about abortion. Have any of
them ever seen a picture of the bloody butchered body of a little girl or
boy displayed by their pastor? Few! This is a sin of silence and
ignorance. Most Christians and pastors are thinking it is kinder to not
show the pictures than to bring real evidence of the enemy slaughter to
their people. It is only this type of real evidence, coupled with real
preaching, that will lead to real sorrow, leading to real repentance,
leading to real healing of people and our land (II
Chron 7:14).
It is time for the church to stand. Jesus
is not Mr. Rogers with a beard. He is a warrior who confronted those who
wanted to be religious but who would not stand for justice.
“For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest part of your income,£
but you ignore the important things of the law—justice, mercy, and faith.”
(Mt. 23:23)
If
the church, led by its pastors and priests will not stand in real love,
love for everyone, including the 4000 little ones destined for a horrible
death in abortion mills surrounded by churches in our collective
communities, the giants in the land will continue to slay and wound our
children, and we, the singing church, will continue to treat the wounded
but do little in the way of slaying the giants who wound us.
“The
best-equipped army cannot save a king, nor is great strength enough to
save a warrior.
17 Don’t
count on your warhorse to give you victory— for
all its strength, it cannot save you.
18 But
the LORD watches over those who fear him, those who rely on his unfailing
love. 19 He
rescues them from death..”
Bud
Reeves
President, Sanctity of Human Life Network
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