Abortion:
The Fruit of Something More Fundamental

Pastor Randy Booth

If we do not clearly perceive the root cause of these wicked insanities like abortion, then we will forever be treating only the symptoms. Like sweeping water up hill, we see progress here and there but we are ultimately overwhelmed by the flood. It is a general rebellion and disregard for the covenant-law of God that leads to a culture’s demise. God will not be mocked.

“And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation” (Ex. 34:5-7).

History is but a long trail littered with the decayed bodies of those individuals and nations that arrogantly raise themselves up against their Creator. W. S. Plummer tells the story of Julian the apostate, one of the Roman Emperors. “In the days of his prosperity he is said to have pointed his dagger to heaven defying the Son of God, whom he commonly called the Galilean. But when he was wounded in battle, he saw that all was over with him, and he gathered up his clotted blood, and threw it into the air, exclaiming, ‘Thou hast conquered, O thou Galilean.’”

There is always a “pay-day.” As singer Bruce Springsteen put it, “You want it, you take, you pay the price.” Or as the Scriptures put it: “You reap what you sow”; “Be sure, your sins will find you out”; “The wages of sin is death”; “But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death” (James 1:14-15).

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