REFUSING TO SUPPORT THE CULTURE OF DEATH

Christian Times Magazine issue 64 | Monthly Magazine

REFUSING TO SUPPORT THE CULTURE OF DEATH

By Pastor Robert Summers

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“ ….I have set before you life and death, the blessings and the curses; therefore choose life that you and your descendants may live. ” Deuteronomy 30:19 Amp.

In my neighborhood occasionally I see a scruffy young man, driving around in a small car that is entirely wrapped in shrink-wrap signage displaying dozens of skulls and cross bones. He is making a statement. He promotes the Halloween season. Whether he knows it or not, he is promoting more than costumes of goblins and witches. He is supporting a culture of death. He is participating in league with a spirit of death. Now, suppose our local town would tax everyone in our neighborhood to help pay this young man for his death tainted service. Imagine then if the law now demands we must all give our grocery money in order to help him foot the bill of driving his shrink-wrapped message through our town.

“Cough it up, ” says the tax collector. And to make matters worse, the big government has just added 87,000 new tax collectors to whom we must also render our earnings so that they can collect the money to pay their own salaries along with what we must pay out to the skull car and driver. “Horrors! Enough!” you cry. “Foul! We won’t do this!” Yet this simple analogy is a picture of the reality of what is happening on a federal level. On the first day he took office, President Biden by Executive Order rescinded the Mexico City Policy. This policy, put in place first by the Reagan Administration, required government supported non-government organizations to certify that they would not “perform or actively promote

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abortions as a method of family planning. ” This restriction was worldwide, not just applying to Mexico. It said in effect that the U.S. government cannot tax your money and then give it to Planned Parenthood to perform abortions in Nigeria or Bulgaria.

There is a deep held conviction of millions of American Christians that abortion releases a spirit of death and promotes the culture of death in our nation. All of this while the church is doing its all to speak life and future hope over our country. Our ER nurses are exhausted laboring to keep up with the suicide (attempts) epidemic in our nation’s youth. Our government needs to get out of the business of death! This November, with our votes we must say, “No, we will not ante up our hard earned money to promote death!” Furthermore, anyone who votes for such policy-makers needs to repent. We are obligated to test the spirits. In John’s epistle we are commanded, “Beloved do not put faith in every spirit, but prove (test) the spirits to discover whether they proceed from God, for many false prophets have gone forth into the world. (I John 4:1 Amp)

Votes have consequences. And if you vote for those who promote death through taxation, don’t expect to reap a harvest of life and peace.