NOT A MORAL ISSUE? 11/8/15

I DON”T usually start out with scriptures but this Morning Glory screams for God’s Word!    Jeremiah 7:31; Jeremiah 19:5 and Jeremiah 32:35 all say; “And they have built the high place of Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.”    WOW!   “I did not command!”   Human sacrifice such as that practiced at Hinnom was explicitly contrary to God’s command.  Note:  nor did it come into His mind!  
AS YOU CAN SEE in regards to Baal worship and sacrificing baby boys and girls to their god Molech, God’s anger was kindled!   Notice that this is written three times in Jeremiah; He mentions it over and over again.   Many pagan religions were fertility gods, and also gods who required living sacrifices.  God’s command to His people was to not intermarry or become involved with these pagan practices.   They disobeyed!
WE KNOW THAT aborting babies is wrong, but you may not know that many people in the world, and some of the Christian community, do it not for sacrificing to a pagan god Molech, but to their god of convenience; embarrassment and for financial reasons.  Actually that was the exact reason the people of biblical times sacrificed their baby’s.  They sacrificed to their fertility god so that their crops would be abundant.  However, today, some have chosen to abort from the womb because our laws say that is not murder.  A murder charge is no longer given when killed outside of the womb (full term abortions), but is given when birthing is over and the baby is noted as a living breathing child, no longer a baby!   Our laws have given women choice and many choose to abort instead of giving life!    God’s command is for life!
WHEN YOU read the scriptures following the ones noted here, you will see just how disappointed God was with His people and how He brings down Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom.   Later He called this place the valley of slaughter.   Eventually the valley became the continually burning refuse dump for Jerusalem.  In the New Testament it is referred to as Gehenna (or Hell), because it had the appearance of a “lake of fire.”
I LOVE the passage that reads; “For thou did form my inward parts, thou did knit me together in my mother’s womb.  I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful!  Wonderful are your works!  You know me right well; for my frame was not hidden from you when I was being made in secret, intricately made, in the depths of the earth.  Your eyes beheld my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”   Psalms 139:13-16   This passage describes how God created the process for re-creating His creation of man.   It shows how even when we were mere substance, or mere egg and sperm that just collided, we were in motion with soul and spirit, which needed this process to give us a body.   Most commentators don’t comment on the how many days, but I believe this is referring to the gestation period before birth!  
IT BEGINS at conception!   That could be through a sound marriage of love or through rape, incest, promiscuity.  To kill that baby is murder!  Just because at conception it looks like a piece of liver, it’s genetic code already exists, and it is completely different from the mother.  At 11 weeks (the first trimester) the baby is formed, it’s organ systems are complete and functioning.  He/she from this point on, grows only in size.  Today you can actually see that baby in the womb and are able to give it a name.   Why would you want to kill it!
IF WE truly believe that God is....then we will want to keep His commandments no matter how inconvenient it is...God loves us and wants us to be happy...we can only be happy if we do what is right, that is how through Christ, we can put on His righteousness!   Think about what is happening and choose life!     Jane Ann Crenshaw 10/22/15