Last night I showed the 180 Movie to our church. I will be posting some video responses below of people who volunteered to share their reaction after viewing. There were times when jaws were wide open watching the film, there were tears as the pictures of the Holocaust were shown. Nearly all of them admitted that they had never correlated the two events together.
Our prayer is that this will serve to help our church be more vocal about the Gospel primarily so that those who are in favor of abortion will come to know Christ (if they are in fact not born again) and see abortion as the vile sin that it is.
What strikes me about the two atrocities, that being the Holocaust of the Jews and Abortion, is that it was people who were already born who were being murdered in Germany. So they had a voice, you could see pictures of them emaciated and starving. With abortion, the children can't make a sound, no one cares to watch the sonogram in 3D that shows their face grimace with pain as the process begins.
I once wrote that abortion is nothing more than modern day Molech worship. How true... how true... the only difference is that we don't worship the false god of Molech when we murder a child, we are worshiping the god of self.
Next week we will be showing this video to our students and praying for their reaction. Many of them who will view it are unconverted. My pastoral prayer is that God use this video next week to finally break their hearts over their sin and draw them unto Himself. At the same time, I pray that as the future voters of this country this would help them to discern between a good political candidate and a bad one.
Sometimes the liberal left accuses evangelicals of being "single issue voters" because we discount a candidate who is pro-choice. That is a bit of a straw man argument because most of us certainly consider more than simply their abortion stance, however, life and the protection of it is more important to me than tax structure or foreign and domestic policy for sure. How can you expect ANY candidate to make wise decisions that affect the protection of the American people when they have already showed a lack of concern for the sanctity of human life to begin with? If they see an unborn child as disposable, imagine how they view other life... just a thought...
Now, having said all that, I want to be clear. If you are reading this and you have had an abortion. I am not condemning you. There is forgiveness available to you from God even for that sin. If you are feeling guilt over having had an abortion, I know that you likely feel like you can't be forgiven for something so awful. But you can. God will forgive you. If you will ask Him to forgive you He will. Here's the thing though, you (and everyone else in this world) need forgiveness for more than just the singular sin of abortion. Oh no, we need forgiveness from God for ALL our sin.
I do not want to isolate the sin of abortion as if it is unforgivable and everything else is forgivable. That's not true. There is forgiveness for you not just for abortion, but for the lies you've told, the things you've stolen, the hate in your heart towards others, the lust in your heart that you've acted on... He is a good and kind God and even now He bids you come to Christ that you might be saved!
Without forgiveness of sins you will spend eternity in Hell, not because you failed to trust in Christ, but because you died in your sins and therefore are accountable to pay for your own sin. God so loved this world that He sent Jesus Christ, His only Son, to live a perfect life free from sin even though He was tempted, then He died on a cruel Roman cross where He endured the physical pain and scorn of the cross and death but He also took the full wrath of God for the sins of all those who would repent and trust in His Name.
So that you do not have to spend eternity in Hell. So that you CAN have eternal life! Christ paid the fine! Turn from your sin (repent) and trust in Jesus Christ today and God will forgive you and grant you eternal life!
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