Yes, you must be Pro-Life. I'm Martyn Iles and this is
'The Truth of It'. I was travelling at the time, so I actually
missed my chance to film a response to the overturning of
Roe vs. Wade in the United States Supreme Court, some weeks
ago. But I don't want to miss a chance to explain why pro-life
is good, why it is right, and why it is non-negotiable for the
Christian. Pro-Lifer's welcomed the legal change in America
with Roe vs. Wade being overturned, because it does mean,
in practice, that there will be fewer abortions in America. But,
for me, that's not only reason why it's good. It's also good
because it is quite true. There is no right to abortion in the
U.S. Constitution. The document is completely silent on the
matter, as constitutions around the world tend to be. It's not
the sort of thing you put in a constitution. It wasn't
there. It was never there. It was a fabrication. It's true,
it's right that the court says, yeah it's not there, okay? So,
the States can legislate as they please but it's not in the
Constitution. It is also true, that no law should sanction
abortion, because the law should not say that what is
wrong is right. It's pretty simple. And the act of aborting
a child is wrong. Law says what's in, what's out. It should
be what's right and what's wrong. It's supposed to accord
with God's standard of righteousness, so the scriptures
say in multiple places. It's not right that it should
sanction it. But, it's also true, that Pro-Life is good, it is
right, and it's commanded by God. God commands, in a
non-negotiable way, the advancement of both biological
and spiritual life. Two things, right? They are separate
words in the New Testament, 'bios' and 'zoe'. Two different
kinds of life. And regarding the first, biological life,
Genesis 9 holds a really key - a really important key.
It says this, God says, 'I will require a reckoning for the
life of man. For God made man in His own image. As for you,
be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly in the earth,
and multiply in it.' In other words: make life, not death, and
I will judge you accordingly. Children are never given a
negative connotation in all of the Bible, only positive. Psalm 127
is well known. It says that children are a reward, that they
are a heritage from the Lord. It says that children are a
blessing to fathers. Children are a blessing to mothers. It
says grandchildren are a blessing to grandparents in
Proverbs. Jesus used children as a metaphor for faith,
a metaphor for greatness in the Kingdom of God, and a metaphor
of Himself, because of their humility, dependence, trust,
and lowliness. You remember, Jesus said 'I'm meek and lowly
in heart', right? Condition of entering the Kingdom: poor in
spirit. He's likening - He used a child as a great metaphor
for a number of those key things. God decided to save the
world through the birth of a child. Ever since Genesis 3:15,
there would be a child that was born - that's what Genesis 3:15
is promising - that would crush evil, that would crush Satan.
When Galatians 4:4 says, 'When the fullness of the time
was come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman.'
Tragically, because of abortion, we routinely kill our
children. And that is clearly evil, and God will judge us
accordingly. That's biological life. What about spiritual
life? It is possible for a human being to be biologically
alive, and yet spiritually dead. There are many references, but
in Ephesians 2, that's just one: 'God, being rich in mercy,
because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we
were dead in our trespasses, made us alive, together with
Christ.' There you go. Romans 6:13 says, '...we should live as those
who have been brought from death to life...'
Spiritual death / spiritual life - both states can exist in a biologically alive
human being. But that is why, the same evil forces that literally
kill children, would also seek to see children corrupted and
have their innocence robbed from them as young as possible. The
assault on the innocence of children, the corruption of
children, has gathered pace in a very short time, and right now
the vanguard of that, is the school system and the
entertainment system. And I'm sorry to say that there have been
institutional system some run by churches, and some in
churches, in the past that have done exactly this, that have
that have also been responsible for great corruption and great
stumbling of children. The design... what is it, from all
these evil people wherever they find their foothold? If the
children must live, then they must be dead to towards God.
These are all the sick, dark, and twisted designs of death.
But it has ever been thus. As early as Genesis 3:15,
which I think I mentioned just a minute ago -
scripture flags for us, a great conflict between good and evil,
and right in the guts of it will be a war on human life -
the offspring of women - that's what the war will be centred
on, climaxing in the war on Jesus, the son of Mary, who it
says will crush the serpent, crush evil, although He Himself
will be bruised. This reality of the way evil denigrates
children is everywhere. You look at Pharaoh, given over to
Satanic influence, killed all the Hebrew babies. That is why
Herod, jealous for power, killed all the boys in
Bethlehem. That is why children are so frequently at the bottom
of the social order, and victims of forces of corruption and
destruction, I just touched on that. To those people
responsible, Jesus said, 'Whoever causes one of these
little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for
him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to
be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the one by whom the
temptation comes.' Better, He means, than to face God's
judgement for such an act. Now the war on life is very
intense. Not just in history, but in our day. On physical
life, we have politicians who literally throw parties when
they pass abortion-to-birth laws through our parliaments.
They are bent on the physical deaths of children. We also
have, on the spiritual side, sickos in the education system,
and the entertainment industries, bent on the
spiritual destruction of children, the corruption of
their innocence, and the insertion, the placing of stumbling
blocks and temptations in their way to turn them away from what
is right. What are we to do? We need Pro-Lifers, to advance the
physical and the spiritual lives of children. Because it
is through the life of people, it is through the creation of
life, that God advances His plan. What happened, by the way,
when Pharaoh did his worst? God preserved a life, miraculously,
in Moses, to advance His plan. What happened when Herod did
his worst? God preserved a life, miraculously, in Jesus to finish
His plan, for all time. What happened, by the way, when God's
people slumped down into a terrible situation in the era
of the Judges. How did God get them out of that? How did He
change the era and the times? He raised up a life - Samuel,
through the prayers of his mother, Hannah, and ushered in a
new era. It is through life that God advances His plan. Yes,
we need to be Pro-Lifers. And we need to be Pro-Lifers in the
political world, right? And that's something that I've had
to do a lot of, and a lot of advocacy, and we pray and trust that as
America is making great gains, we will continue to see gains
here. We've seen small ones. We trust that we'll see more. But
we also need to be those who are Pro-Lifer's, just in our
lives. We need to be those who do have children, as we're
commanded to, if we can, if we're married. We need to treasure
the children that we know. We need to pray, intently and
earnestly, for the children in our lives. We need to be
involved, as best we can, in the spiritual formation and the
guidance for righteousness of children. We need to protect
children. We need to dedicate our children to the Lord to
advance His purposes. That is the Pro-Life life. It is good.
It is right. God has commanded it, and He hasn't made it
negotiable. And it's becoming so, so countercultural. As
children drop to the bottom of the social ladder, excluded from
more and more places than ever, considered to be an
inconvenience, replaced by puppy dogs and kittens by millennial
couples - I could go on. Do you know something? Boy, oh boy, will
Christians stand apart because of their difference on this
matter. Advancing the biological and the spiritual life
of every child because this is good, and don't forget it. I'm
Martyn Iles and that was 'The Truth of It'.