Teach What’s Good

 

Do the younger women in our churches know that biblically, abortion is murder?

Do the younger women in our churches know that there are people happy to help them should they experience an unplanned pregnancy?

Do they know that there are answers to their questions, finances for the financial concerns, and hope for their futures if they respond in obedience?

Can it really be true that about 70% of the women who get abortions claim to be Christians?

Let’s be clear, from a biblical perspective these women are murdering their children. God makes this known in His word. Several times the Lord shows the value He places on life:

• He first shows us that the life in the womb “counts” in Exodus 21:22-25, “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
• And, “Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death. Leviticus 24:17

One of the major themes in the Old Testament (that has been lost by heretical teaching that the OT is not relevant for today) is the emphasis God places on “generational thinking.” From the time of His promises to Israel about their inheritance of the Promised Land we see great concern for future generations. (For more on this topic see “Generational Blessings,” “Generational Grace,” and “Pass It Down.”)

When we take this generational emphasis and apply Titus 2:3-4 to it, we have a serious responsibility as older women in the Church of Jesus Christ. These verses say, “Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children.” Titus 2:3-4

As I watch videos of conversations with young women at abortion mills telling the Christians trying to intervene that they “know God forgives them,” that “He has forgiven them before and will this time,” and that this is “right for them at this time,” it leaves a clear impression that taking care of our children from the moment they are conceived is a topic we have failed to teach. This includes our failure to talk openly about and instruct younger people the biblical truth about abortion. Apparently, many Christian young people would rather have an abortion than be found out for the sin of sexual immorality. This is the fear of man, not God.

So, how do we begin to teach these biblical truths without giving the next generation the impression that pre-marital sex is ok? Are we only permitted to talk to our flesh and blood about sexual issues or can we teach a class on it?

I know by the fruit of their lips that many of the women at abortion mills are not born-again Christians but they do have some church background. Will you and I be the ones to step up to the plate and start to tackle the hard questions of life?

From what I have heard from young women who have aborted, it may end the “problem” of their pregnancy but it opens up a whole world of regret, grief, guilt, and self-hatred that we would not wish on God’s enemies, no less His children.

As older women remain comfortable in our silence, we are as guilty of disobeying God in our omission of training the younger women as they are of committing murder of their baby in the womb. The penalty is greater for them but the sin is real for us.  We are complicit.