Thoughts on Christian Living Book #2 by Dr. W. A. Dillard - HTML preview

LATE TERM ABORTION DEPICTS HUMAN INGRATS

The depths of depravity in modern man has NOT achieved a new, low state. Quite the contrary! The depravity of man has been complete since the fall in the Garden of Eden. Even late term abortions have been around for millenniums, howbeit in a more crude fashion, but just as cruel. God used it to depict the awful, spiritual and moral state of Jerusalem as spoken through the prophet Ezekiel, a contemporary with Daniel. The entire sixteenth chapter of Ezekiel lays it all out in grisly detail.

Jerusalem (City of Peace) had been the object of the tender love and mercies of the Lord including abundant material blessings, but they forsook His ways, and denying His blessings upon them, sunk into the depths of sin. Wallowing in the fleshly sins of false religion and corrupt morals, God cut them down to size in what must be the most castigating message ever recorded.

Ezekiel begins the message: “Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, and say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite [both heathen descendants of Ham]. And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou was not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou was cast out in the open field, to the loathing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou was in thy blood, Live: yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.”

Here then is a graphic reminder of the ugliness of sin, and its lack of compassion upon all of the offspring of Adam, but particularly upon the recipients of His salvation. Here also is the marvelous grace of the Creator-God of Love. By His mercies are His children blessed. The question remains to each one as to how much he appreciates those blessings, and what we are doing to honor our Life-giving, merciful, altogether wonderful, Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus. Each one should do a reality check often! But for the loving mercies and grace of the Lord we should be nothing more than late term abortions cast into a field.

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