Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.” (Jeremiah 31:15, KJV)

Subject: WE ARE LOSING GROUND IN THE ABORTION BATTLE / Falwell Confidential / Date: June 4, 2004
               It is apparent that the culture of death is intensifying its stranglehold on the culture. This week, a federal judge ruled that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (PABA), which was signed into law by President Bush last November, is unconstitutional.  President Bush's signing of this important law came after Congress overwhelmingly passed the legislation.  But since its signing, the PABA has been the target of hysterical abortion-rights groups that want absolutely no limitations on that disingenuous catchphrase - "a woman's right to choose."
               Furthermore, a British study has revealed that growing numbers of women are becoming so calloused in terms of abortion that they are choosing to abort their unborn children simply because they are discovered to have medical problems such as Down's syndrome, malformed feet, and even cleft lips/palates.  The culture of abortion has brought about a sense of designer fashion in terms of unborn babies; if the baby doesn't fit the parent's desires, it is cast off like an out-of-style suit.
               This week, Federal Judge Phyllis Hamilton predictably fell in line with the radical abortion-rights community when she ruled that the PABA establishes an "undue burden" on women seeking abortion.  The Clinton appointee said the PABA is "unconstitutionally vague" because it does not include a health exception for women seeking a partial-birth abortion.  Her ruling protects for now 900 Planned Parenthood clinics which carry out such abortions. Abortion-rights supporters want women to have the unregulated ability to determine that they need an abortion.  A health exception in terms of partial-birth abortion allows doctors to formulate any number of trumped up reasons to call for abortion for a patient wanting one.  A so-called health

Endure hardness like a good soldier of Jesus Christ /   Let your light so shine among men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. [2 Tim. 2:3; Matt. 5:16.]

                                                                    THE FELLOWSHIP OF BELIEVERS

                 At the beginning of the New Testament Church in Acts 2:45,  there is a striking indication of the level

of commitment that the followers of Christ had.  “Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone

as he had need.”  It was this zeal for worship and brotherly love that gave the early church such a solid

foundation and attracted people to Jesus Christ. 

                 As the body of Christ, we have a tremendous opportunity to reflect His light and thereby attract others

to salvation through Him.  That had to be in the mind of the Apostle Paul in Romans 12:1 where he urged the

believers in Rome to ”offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God.”  It is surely the case that

the “passion” that was Christ’s will be transferred to his followers and eventually to all Creation.

                                                                                                                                        ~  C. B. Sehorn

 

Our calling is not to one of passivity  but a proactive reflection of the passion and zeal that Jesus displayed

and that was certainly true of his disciples and the early believers.  There is no greater cause and no greater sacrifice than to follow him as a true “soldiers of light’ in the fellowship of believers