Who is on the Lord’s side?
Posted By Elder Nicholas Chibanda on May 15, 2010
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:” Deuteronomy 30:19.
WHO IS ON THE LORD’S SIDE? : WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT LIFE
Thousand of years ago, the LORD God of heaven, the Giver of Life answered the question that has baffled the learned many of our society. The lawyers have wrestled with it, the judges in the courts of law have been perplexed by it. Individual members of our society and civic groups have gathered to decide on this but have failed in all ways to stand on the LORD’s side.
When Moses went up on the mountain to receive the law and the Testimony, Israel gathered themselves unto Aaron and said unto him, ‘Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.’ Exodus 32:1.
Aaron in turn makes for them a molten calf and they worshipped it. And the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. God says to Moses, ‘Get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:” verse 7.
And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. He crushes the molten calf which they had made and strawed it upon the water and made Israel drink of it. Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD’s side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. And Moses instructs the children of Levi to go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
Even now, the question still applies to us: Who is on the Lord’s side concerning abortion? Who is ready to leave the mainstream and become unpopular in the sight of men, but save his soul? This question can be answered if we silence every voice and creed that man has decreed, and turn to the inerrant and sure word of our God.
1. As a safeguard to human life, what did God command?
Thou shalt not kill. Exodus 20:13
2. How gruesome is the sin of murder?
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel. Numbers 35:33-34.
3. Faced with a decision what does God say concerning life over death?
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:” Deuteronomy 30:19.
4. Who alone has the right to give and to take away?
And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. Job 1:21.
5. What law did God give concerning the unborn child?
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. Exodus 21:22.
6. When does life begin with God?
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
7. Did David say all our members are written before they exist?
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. Psalm 139:16.
8. Then God has work for us even before we are even born, does He?
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. Isaiah 49:1-3.
Note: ‘The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother’
9. God does not put at what stage one is in their mother’s womb before He calls them. As soon as a woman conceives, there is begins to exist a precious life which God has already named:
‘From the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.’
Usually we give names to children after they are born. We call them by various names as fetus, embryo etc, but God calls that which is nothing to man, by name. And when that is killed, a human with a name has been murdered.
‘And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword’
To God there is a voice in the womb, while to man there is just an embryo. God prepares the unborn for His work, hiding that in the shadow of his hand, polishing and prepares the unborn for His glory. When that is killed, how great a sin man has committed against the plans and purposes of God!
10. God is very succinct about shedding of innocent blood. That is what abortion achieves.
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. Proverbs 6:16-19 (Look also at the following verses: Isaiah 59:7, Psalm 94:21
Feel free to add your comments to this lesson because God is always glorified when we often speak one to another about His Word:
“Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.” Malachi 3:16-17
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