CHAPTER 25
RESCUE THE PERISHING (ABORTION) “Rescue the perishing, don’t hesitate to step in and help. If you say, “Hey, that’s none of my business,” will that get you off the hook? Someone is watching you closely, you know—someone not impressed with weak excuses.” Proverbs 24:11-12 (MSG)
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t is Biblical and right for us to help the poor, the downtrodden, the abused. Who are the perishing? I believe that in American society today this applies most directly to the unborn. Abortion in America today is literally an epidemic. In our hospitals and clinics today there is abortion, infanticide, and now much talk about euthanasia. From the decision of Roe versus Wade to 2017 America performed 59,115,995 abortions! That is 53 times more deaths than in all of our wars combined. I want to clarify right away that it is not my intention to condemn anyone. This message is to renew our minds, to give us a biblical perspective. In the first few centuries, church history reveals that the early church was extremely counter-cultural. The church stood against the unbiblical yet common practices of its day including 154
