You shall not murder (Exodus 20:13).
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants… (Deuteronomy 30:19).
They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,
And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their sons and their daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And the land was polluted with the blood (Psalm 106:37–38).
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9).
In the book of Exodus, chapter 20, the Lord gave us the Ten Commandments. These were ten foundational truths that contain the moral law of God. They carry the wisdom of God. And they are eternal.
These commandments honor God and bless the people who live according to them. To violate them is to dishonor God and bring trouble, difficulty, and death upon the disobedient. It is in our best interests to hear, obey, and live by each of the Ten Commandments. Each one blesses our lives in a unique way.
The sixth commandment says “You shall not murder.” This commandment, perhaps more than any other commandment, has some of the most extreme consequences of the ten when it is violated . One key reason for this is true. When it is violated, a human being, made in the image of God, is taken out of this world.
Abortion is a form of murder – plain and simple. More specifically, abortion is first-degree murder. It is not accidental, but typically well-planned. Tragically, there is much deception, misleading, and many lies surrounding abortion.
Sadly, many who say they are believers are taking the word “murder” and seeking to substitute it with words like “abortion,” “reproductive rights,” and “euthanasia.” It seems that they want to believe that murder is acceptable if we rename it.
Yet whatever name you give the act of taking innocent life, it is still clearly wrong according to the Word of God.
Sadly, because this specific kind of murder was repackaged and rebranded and sold to our culture with a brand new face and cover, many have bought into it. So much so that now it’s been stated that one out of every three or four women has had an abortion. We have become a nation of murderers.
“That’s a very harsh way to put it” one might say. Well, sometimes the hard truth hurts. Sometimes it’s a very hard pill to swallow. Yet sometimes being faced with the hard truth head-on helps us to wake up and see where we are and what we are.
Now the God we serve is merciful and full of lovingkindness and forgiveness. He clearly told us in His Word, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). We serve a wonderful heavenly Father who majors in forgiveness. Our job is to confess when we have done wrong, repent of it, and ask Him to forgive us. And He will certainly do it. He always keeps His Word.
So, is abortion really first-degree murder? Yes, it is. And there are already laws on the books against that. God’s Word never changed. We did. We allowed ourselves to be deceived and lulled to sleep.
So what should we do? We as the Church need to repent to God for the sin of abortion. We need to be wise enough, bold enough, and committed enough to say that we have been wrong about the whole matter of abortion. It always has and always will be wrong to commit first-degree murder. God’s Word will never change.
Murdering a human being is wrong – period. And the laws against murder have been in place a long time. We just need to enforce them.
