Gospel on Pro-Life Sunday - 2014

This is the Lord’s Day and central to our worship must of course be the declaration of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, the worship of God the Father and all in the power of the Holy Spirit.  But as we come to worship this Sunday, it is also the noted anniversary week of the murderous Roe-v-Wade decision of 1973 in our nation – a decision which marks the horrible so-called right to choose.  And so, our focus this morning will be on the need for our nation to repent, for mercy to be granted for the murder of 50 plus million little lives and for healing and restoration, for women and men convicted of their sin of murdering their children to find grace and forgiveness in Jesus, and for us all as a nation in order that we might be a people, a nation, who do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with their God – the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The songs we sing this morning are carefully chosen by our Chief Musician and so I want to highlight them briefly as we are called to worship - The opening Psalm 122 already called us to join the throngs in worship.

Once More My Soul reminds us of the "thousand wretched souls that have fled since the last setting sun.” Let us not forget these that have passed.

The decalogue reminds us “you shall not kill or hate your neighbor.”

Psalm 137 reminds us of the judgment that God brings against the children of the nation who hates Him. May we not be that nation.

Psalm 103 reminds us that “God’s grace alone endureth and children’s children yet shall prove how He with strength assureth the hearts of all that seek His love.”

O God of Earth and Altar we will sing “our earthly rulers falter, our people drift and die.”

And lest we become discouraged in all this… “whate’re my God ordains is right” bookends our service.

The way we treat our children reflects the idolatrous religion of our nation.  But Jesus Christ is King and this atrocity will not go unnoticed.  It has not gone unnoticed – His wrath upon us has been visited and His judgment has begun.  We must turn and repent and we must do so swiftly.