Dennis Edwards
The journalists who investigated Planned Parenthood were found guilty of various crimes last week in California. You may remember the vídeos recorded in secret where top representatives of Planned Parenthood cajouled about the prices of different aborted baby parts. The officials of Planned Parenthood said arrangements could be made during the abortion to secure a certain part of the aborted baby with minimal damage. The judge in the case ordered the jurry to find the jouralist guilty of crimes and in obedience the jurry did so. Planned Parenthood has been awarded $2million dollars in damages. You can read more about it here.
Let us pray for the brave jouralists who dared to take on Planned Parenthood and the million dollar evil abortion industry. Let us remember the sanctity of life and God’s commandment “Thou shalt not kill.”[1] Let us remember God’s commandment to take care of the poor and the needy. Let us remember Jesus’s own words, “In as much as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto Me.”[2]
We have become dull to the devil’s dirty work. We sit idly by watching television, or we go shopping while the innocent souls are cut assunder in the name of “freedom of choice.” Our society continues to reject God and accept every type of blasphemy against Him and all He stands for.
Let us read and pray Psalm 94 together against the enemies of God and against the poor and innocent. The prophet cries out to God for help against a strong and powerful wicked adversary.
“O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show thyself. Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage. They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.”[3]
Lord, how long will evil continue to triumph? How long will society let organizations like Planned Parenthood continue their dirty work against the unborn child? How long will men keep silent and not take a stand against the iniquity that is being done? How long will You, O Lord, not act and save the souls of the poor innocents against the strong and mighty organization Planned Parenthood which has had governamental and international support?
Lord, we pray for the journalists in California who loved You enough and loved the innocent unborn children to risk their careers and even lives to expose the evil shenanigans of Planned Parenthood. Arise, O Lord, in their defense. Raise up the right hand, O Lord, and defend the righteous cause of the undercover journalist in California. Defeat the lies and the craftyness of Planned Parenthood’s lawyers and bring their counsel to nought and the counsel of the judge in the case to naught. Raise up a defence and the finances needed to take the case to a higher court who will deal more righteously with the events and the issue of abortion.
Let us continue to read from the Psalm where the prophet adresses the evil doers.
“Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? He that chastises the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teaches man knowledge, shall not he know?”[4]
Of course, He will. He is God. But God in not in our thoughts. We have educated ourselves to believe we come from monkeys through a random natural process. There is no fear of God in the land, because we are not even sure He exists.
The prophet continues with words of truth.
“The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. Blessed is the man whom thou chastens, O Lord, and teaches him out of thy law; That thou may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.”[5]
God promises throughout His Word to save the righteous and contemn the wicked. Our hope as non-violent, peace-loving Christians is in God, not in man, nor the systems of men. Our Christian heritage is stained with the blood of the martyred believers who died for their faith. But their blood was the seed of the Church. Christianity overthrew Rome without raising a sword of steel. The only sword raised was the truth of God’s Word which was coupled with the loving sample of the believers. Believers who loved not their lives even unto death to obey the loving principles of their Lord and God.
The prophet challenges his friends and acquaintances.
“Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?”[6]
Often, we get no response as men fear for their lives, or reputations, or positions in society or their employment. The “silent majority” remain silent out of fear of man and what man can do to them.
The prophet continues.
“Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. When I said, My foot slips; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up. In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.”[7]
Only the Lord helps us. And if man helps us, it is because God has raised him up. Our comfort, our sure rock, our strong tower is the Lord.
The psalmist goes on.
“Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frames mischief by a law? They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.”[8]
The judge in the case demanded that the jury find against the journalists. He refused to let the jury hear the conversations that were recorded by the journalists secretly. The “law” was on the side of Planned Parenthood, the law of abortion which the Christian journalists were working against to expose for its evil and selfish motives, i.e., finacial profit! One Planned Parenthood official boasted she would be able to buy a new fancy car with the profits she would make with the sales of the aborted baby parts.
But God’s prophet takes comfort in knowing that God is on the side of righteousness and truth and love. The prophet reaffirms his beliefs and predicts the destruction of the wicked.
“But the Lord is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge. And He shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.”[9]
Please pray with me for the journalists and their lawyers. Pray God raises up a righteous defence and that the decision made last week can be overturned and even lead to the overturning of “Roe vs Wade.” And if not, pray for God’s righteous judgments against the wicked and a wicked society that has forgotten God. “For the wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God.”[10]
You might find the above film interesting: "Unplanned."
Notes:
[1] Exodus 20:13
[2] Matthew 25:40
[3] Psalm 94:1-7
[4] Psalm 94:8-10
[5] Psalm 94:11-15
[6] Psalm 94:16
[7] Psalm 94:17-19
[8] Psalm 94:20-21
[9] Psam 94:22-23
[10] Psalm 9:17
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