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The Bible tells us about Satan’s character. We learn that, “he was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (John 8:44). What we also know about Satan is that for a time God has allowed him to rule this world. As the apostle John wrote, “the whole world lies in the power of the evil one” (1 John 5:19). What we see in our world is a world full of murder and lies. We live in a world that has come to believe that the taking of a child in the womb is morally justified. This has been an incredibly successful lie of Satan’s. Every year 73 million babies are aborted around the world. One of his greatest lies is that abortion is a choice. It has been called pro-choice since pro-choice sounds much more palatable than pro-murder. The baby in the womb is a human that has all the organs that a human outside the womb has. A heartbeat can be detected five weeks in and some say as early as nineteen days. To stop a beating heart is to end a human life. This is a moral, biblical issue. As Scripture says, “You formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:13-14). This passage describes clearly the humanity of the child in the womb. The day any human comes into existence is not the day he or she is born, it is the day the child is conceived (Psalm 51:5).   But the world has been lied to. Since 1973 Americans have been lied to as 63 million babies have been aborted in our Land. That year Satan made great advances to his agenda of murdering and lying. He fooled people into believing that it is okay for mother and father to have a choice concerning whether or not to abort a child. Some Americans were already pushing this agenda before 1973 (and it was legal in New York) but in 1973 the Highest Court succumbed to this lie. In the name of privacy and freedom of choice the Court did what the Founders never intended the Court to do. They made the law instead of interpreting the law. The Supreme Court said the freedom to abort falls under the “right to privacy” in the Fourteenth Amendment. When that Amendment was written in 1868 this is not what the authors had in mind. They understood, as the Founders did, that abortion was murder. In fact, the Founders used the Ten Commandments as their moral guide and the sixth commandment is, “You shall not murder.” The Founders and the writers of the Fourteenth Amendment understood that taking the life of the most helpless, an unborn child, is a major moral violation; similar to offering up a child to Molech (Leviticus 18:21). But the Supreme Court in 1973 caved to the loud immoral voices in society and allowed for the freedom to abort a child nationwide.   For decades there has been a loud moral outcry to reverse this decision and in the news recently we have learned that the Court plans to do so. But this displeases Satan and he is doing what he can to keep murder on demand going in America. The recent leak of the Court’s plans occurred to put pressure on the Justices who plan to vote to overturn it. But their job is to correctly interpret the Fourteenth Amendment, which will wipe out the Court’s erroneous decision from 1973. Let us pray that they stand firm and do what is right. To stand against the abortion movement is to stand against the one who has been murdering and lying since the beginning of creation. To stand against Roe V. Wade is to stand against one of his most deceptive lies in history. Let us pray that Satan’s agenda takes a huge hit and the weakest among us are spared till Christ returns.  

Grace and Peace, 

Pastor Seth