“THIS WEEK
REMEMBERS THE INFAMY OF THE PAST 28 YEARS THAT GAVE US THE WORLD’S GREATEST
HOLOCAUST, THE DESTRUCTION OF UNBORN HUMAN LIFE.”
I’m Dennis
Finnan, host and speaker on The World, the Word & You! Broadcast and in a
moment we’ll talk about the 28th anniversary of America’s
terrible decision to destroy innocent human life…
…Hello listening friends, and welcome again to another
broadcast edition of the World the Word & You! I’m Dennis Finnan your
host and speaker thanking you for joining us today.
Our program comes to you by the kindness and care of friends like you
who listen each week to our broadcasts. We thank God for your prayers and
assistance in keeping us on the air.
Well, here we are in the 21st century and our
radio programming has likewise reached its 21st anniversary year of
proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ to our nation and the world.
May God continue to give us a voice until He calls us
home or steps in in judgment against the sins of our world and particularly
our nation. Yes, I said our nation ¾
for this week remembers the 28th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade
Supreme Court decision of the United States that made abortion on demand legal
everywhere in the United States of America. Each year since then, more than
one and a half million little unborn American children have been severed from
their mother’s womb and ruthlessly killed by the abortionist’s knife. Yet
surprisingly, as more science and information surfaces about life in the womb,
we as a nation have become more callous and unconcerned to make any changes in
the infamy of these established killing fields all across the nation. Well,
after we pause to hear this moment of music, I’ll return with what I believe
is today’s answer in remembrance of this great world Holocaust. Stay
tuned…
… Recently, I came across an anonymous poem that speaks
volumes to the issue of abortion that was legalized 28 years ago this week.
Permit me to quote it for you now…
“Who
are these children not yet born,
from
Mother’s wombs so cruelly torn?
Each
one is a gift from God above.
What
crimes or offenses were they guilty of?
Did
they perhaps get in someone’s way,
these
helpless victims of America’s moral decay,
Carried
to their death While still in the womb?
Nevertheless,
they merit neither headstone nor tomb!
Millions
of them have been killed,
Their
human adventure forever stilled,
Cut
down like weeds, before their birth,
Never
to marvel at God’s beautiful earth.,
How
cold and ruthless has man become,
That
he’d slay his own daughter or son!
To
what Hellish depths have we sunk, as a Nation,
to
allow this destruction of God’s precious creation?”
¾
Anonymous
How sad but true are these words that speak of the
bloodstained hands of America. Although abortion remains a controversial
issue, it is not an issue anymore to be debated as to its evil and sin before
God. Clearly abortion is the wanton, callous, cruel, violent and brutal
killing of innocent children that the Creator God condemns, and warns He will
fiercely judge in the coming days ahead! However today, I do not want to again
“prove” that the unborn in the womb of a mother is precious human life.
That issue, has long ago, been established by the scientific and medical world
beyond any doubt. No, today I want to talk about where we are going with our
love of abortion, and what’s the issue for the 21st century. But
first let’s listen to this…
…As one looks back to the Supreme Court’s decision to
legalize infanticide, the killing of innocent children, the face of ethical
issues has completely changed. No longer debated is the issue, “is an
unborn child human life?” The question when life begins is no longer the
key issue for science itself has established “human life begins at the
moment of conception!” If so, why then do abortionists and their supporters
still carry out this evil act of murder? Well, the question has now moved to
whether “any unborn children in a mother’s womb have any intrinsic
rights and whether the mother’s rights are more important!”
Pro-abortionists and their political party the Democrats no longer debate the
issue that a “fetus” is or is not a living human being. Now, the fierce
issue is ¾
what if any rights do the unborn have? Is
a mother’s rights and desire greater than any right of life in the womb?
Today the anti-life, pro-abortion group cries out, “
Yes, abortion is the taking of life. We admit that now, and it is sad and
unfortunate. However, women who are pregnant have a greater right to decide
whether to allow the unborn in their womb to live or not, for it’s a
woman’s choice!” This friend is the new issue for the 21st
century. Yes we’ve all heard that phrase – “The Right to Choose,” as
if this was some constitutional right. But the question is the “Right to
Choose what?” Once a woman gets pregnant, she already has a new life, a
child. The choice is what does she do with him or her? Does she allow this
unborn life to life or die?
The fact remains America has chosen for over 28 years now
to kill more than 40 million of its unborn children since 1973. That means
over 4,400 children a day are murdered all across America as women
“choose” to kill their children before they are born. At least 30% of all
pregnancies are now ended by abortion. For unmarried women, the figure more
than doubles ¾
63% of pregnancies of unmarried women are aborted. For teenagers, 41-46% of
pregnancies are aborted. More over, almost 50% of all abortions are repeat
abortions, and according to pro-abortion Dr. Irvin Cushner of UCLA Medical
school in a testimony before a Senate Subcommittee he stated, “98% of all
abortions are done because woman do not wish to be pregnant at this particular
time.” Now for you to gain a perspective of these grim statistics. The
murderous killing death of America’s unborn children is greater that all the
American War casualties suffered in our nation’s entire history! But what
does all this mean?
Let’s face it people today are tired of the jargon from
both sides. I believe ears have become deaf to truth and facts, but one thing
is sure. No one can become deaf to the Word of God! We are given no such
ability, opportunity or privilege. Listen to what God says about the
proclamation of His Word to all sinners…
Heb
4:12-13 (NIV) “For the word of
God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates
even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts
and attitudes of the heart. 13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s
sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we
must give account.”
You see, God tells us that when He speaks, although we
can refuse to obey, we cannot refuse to hear in our hearts what God has to
say, and we cannot ever turn off the truth God’s speaks to us. All we can do
is close our minds, and simply refuse to respond positively to it. Therefore,
I believe we Christians today must keep up the proclamation of God’s Word on
this issue of abortion. Now what does God say about a woman’s right to kill
her unborn child? Hear the Word of God:
Gen
1:1 (NIV) “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Gen
1:27 (NIV) “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God
he created him; male and female he created them.”
Exo
20:13 (NIV) “”You shall not murder.”
Psa
139:13-16 (NIV) “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together
in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully
made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not
hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together
in the depths of the earth, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days
ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
Isa
44:24 (NIV) “”This is what the LORD says—your Redeemer, who formed
you in the womb: I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched
out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself,”
Jer
1:5 (NIV) “”Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you
were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.””
Col
1:16 (NIV) “For by him all things were created: things in heaven and
on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or
authorities; all things were created by him and for him.”
Deu
30:19 (NIV) “This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you
that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose
life, so that you and your children may live”
Clearly no man or woman, nor court of law, can ever
legislate abortion as a right to take innocent human life simply for the sake
of personal convenience or choice! God says that abortion is murder, and the
killing fields of America and the world are therefore one of the greatest
holocausts of our time. Hitler’s Holocaust of murdering the Jews, began by
declaring them non-persons by law, so that executing them was legal and
socially moral. But Hitler’s ovens and gas chambers are nothing compared to
the murderous, violent and brutal killing fields of today’s abortion clinics
staffed by Planned Parenthood and others like them. Oh but mind you, God keeps
account, and His Word promises that He will one day bring a horrific judgment
on all who have so callously ignored the sanctity of human life.
So, for this Day of Judgment, we must prepare, and for
this we must confess we as a nation will deserve every last effect of God’s
wrath against this sin of murdering our children. You know, in the days of the
Old Testament a nation of people committed violent acts of brutal abortion not
dissimilar to today. Hear then what God says,
Amos
1:13 (NIV) “This is what the LORD says: “For three sins of Ammon,
even for four, I will not turn back my wrath. Because he ripped open the
pregnant women of Gilead in order to extend his borders,”
How graphically God says, His wrath is against a people
who committed the terrible sin of abortion! Why even Jesus Christ Himself said
this about little innocent children,
Mat
18:14 (NIV) “In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that
any of these little ones should be lost.”
Mat
18:10 (NIV) “”See that you do not look down on one of these little
ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my
Father in heaven.”
God also spoke in the Old Testament about those who
perform murderous acts of bloodshed for money,
Deu
27:25 (NLT) “’Cursed is anyone who accepts payment to kill an
innocent person.’ And all the people will reply, ‘Amen.’”
Yes,
God’s Word tells us that those who perform abortions are no different from a
hired killer who murders another for payment. How much more will our abortion
clinics, their doctors and those who authorize their existence ¾ suffer the same fate and wrath of God? Moreover, God’s Word reminds
us nothing we do whether we declare it legal or not, can pass muster before
the sovereign Creator. Scripture warns time and time again,
Heb
4:13 (NIV) “Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight.
Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must
give account.”
So what’s ahead now for us who still work for and pray
for abortion on demand to cease? Well, here is a battle plan I believe all
Christians should mount and ride hard into the sunset of God’s coming
judgment, for I believe with all my heart it’s too late to stop God’s
wrath that rising to the boiling point. Yes, all we can do these days is delay
it, so we might have time to win many to Christ and be spared the eternal
punishment that will come to all unrepentant sinners… So here is a plan.
1.
WE MUST EARNESTLY PRAY ¾
We must never stop praying for God to intervene in our nation’s conscience
so that by law we can overturn the evil Supreme Court decision of 1973. Yes,
it will take a constitutional amendment, or a new Supreme Court (?) Remember, nothing is impossible with God. Friend, will you
commit to continue to pray for overturning the Supreme Court’s decision by
whatever means?
2.
WE MUST ENERGETICALLY SPEAK OUT - We must never stop speaking
out about the sinfulness and wrong doing of abortion. Say it, proclaim it,
preach it ¾
abortion is murder, the most callous cruel and brutal taking of life ever
invented by sinners. Christians must be vocal. Speak out at work, in the
newspaper write in columns, talk about it with your neighbors and especially
children.
3.
WE MUST ENCOURAGE EDUCATION - We must keep informed as
to the changing issues. Today the issue is not is there life in the womb, but
is that life worth equal value to the one on whom it depends? Is that life in
the womb precious enough to have rights of its own? The answer of course is
yes, yes, yes!
4.
WE MUST ENGAGE IN DEBATE - Upon having
sufficient knowledge on the issues and facts, we must educate those around us.
We must petition school boards and educators that our children must learn that
sexual activity outside of marriage is not only sin, but also the major source
of evil that fuels abortion. Yes, we will be laughed at, vilified, called
ignorant and people of the dark ages, but God will be pleased that His voice
is heard among the nation.
5.
WE MUST EXPOSE SO-CALLED RIGHTEOUS USE OF ABORTION –
Yes, we must decry the newest use of aborted human babies for medical
research. Although some good may come of it, it is never right to form human
life and kill it, to give possible continuing life to others. Every laboratory
“petri” dish that houses fertilized human embryos contains a human life.
We have no right to destroy it in research or for harvesting its cells for
treating human illness. Stem cell research is wrong unethical and immoral
because it involves the callous destruction of human life.
6.
WE MUST EVANGELIZE OUR NATION- Indeed; we must work to
change the hearts of American, young and old alike, to come to realize their
own sinful and perilous relationship to our Creator. We must evangelize our
nation starting with our youngest residents, our children. Get involved in
Church children’s ministries, and work to win them to Christ. A changed
heart will bring a changed life. There is really no other way to change our
nation for the next generation. Lastly,
7.
WE MUST EXPRESSLY REPENT – Yes, we must all ask God
for His forgiveness, personally and nationally, and ask Him to stay His hand
of judgment that surely will fall to avenge the deaths of more that 40 million
of His children who have been killed by those who support and promote abortion
killings. Why even Daniel, the prophet of old, cried out for his nation when
he said,
Dan
9:5-6 (NIV) “we have sinned and
done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from
your commands and laws. 6 We have not listened to your servants the prophets,
who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our fathers, and to all
the people of the land.”
Indeed, as we remember the Abortion issue this week that
was passed as lawful 28 years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court, let us also
remember the Bible teaches that mankind created in the image of God, has a
divinely endowed dignity that is sacred regardless of what age any life is
found, regardless of what environment it lives in, regardless of its own
ability to sustain him or herself, and regardless of their physical wholeness
or not. LIFE IS SACRED! To reject this, ignore this, or violate this will
undoubtedly bring God’s wrath and judgment.
May God give you a heart to
stand with Him against the sin of our nation that callously goes on. May the
Lord by His Spirit convict all of us of our complacency, and failure to be His
instrument and voice to warn our nation of its crimes, and for us to be a part
of the solution.
I call Heaven and earth as
witness to the fact that all Christians, will also be held responsible for
this tragedy of death, if we simply do nothing and remain silent to our
nations great Holocaust. Yes, God will not hold us guiltless, but will also
bring judgment on the Christians of this nation who by virtue of our size and
strength can overnight change this wicked sin, but choose to do nothing. May
this week’s remembrance of the U.S Supreme Court’s infamous
abortion-on-demand decision become history in the 21st century. It
can if we will rise up and be counted.
Gen
9:1 (NIV) “Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be
fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.”
Gen
9:5 (NIV) “And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting.
I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will
demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man.”…
…Yes, how sad as we move into the 21st century, that
our nation and the world for that matter have thumbed its nose in the face of
God the Creator. But know this,
Gal
6:7-9 (NIV) “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps
what he sows. 8 The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature
will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit
will reap eternal life. 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the
proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
Well friends, you’ve been listening to the heart and
words of Dennis Finnan, host and commentator on the World, the Word & You!
Broadcast. I pray this week coming you will take to heart what I’ve shared
and be a source of blessing, help and hope to those who are afflicted and in
danger of being destroyed by the sin of abortion. May God grant you a powerful
voice and work to turn our nation around. It’s time we all take this stand.
Say if you would like a copy of today’s talk, it’s free of charge! Just
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next week for another look at our world God’s Word and its relationship to
you and me. Till then may the Lord bless you and keep you and may His face
shine brightly upon you. See you soon… Good bye for now.
- Radio talk #0301
- Broadcast date: January 21, 2001
- Speaker: Dennis L. Finnan, Commentator
- Program: The World, the Word & You! Radio Broadcast
- Address: P.O. Box 40133 Grand Junction, CO 81504
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