Dearest Ones,
Forty nine young mothers went into the Building for Women in the past 2 months and allowed their innocent baby to be torn apart by the unusually cruel torture of abortion- except for one.
One of those mothers changed her mind about having an abortion and we are helping her in various ways. This mother is now very excited about her child, a boy, and has given him a name. Friends, this one child that we know has been saved from a cruel torturous death is so precious! Please pray for the mother and baby, she is going through a difficult time right now, but let me point out, nothing can compare with the difficult time women are having who went through with the abortion. Can one kill another person and go Scott- Free? Do they think that their trouble is over? Their troubles have just begun and worse then their worst nightmares! Why? Because God is our Creator who has put His laws into our hearts. To murder another means guilt, He will not let their conscience be free of the guilt, it weighs down the soul, it hurts the mind, and if one does not repent to God they will sear their conscience and harden their hearts for the day of judgement. . .
(Romans 2:15). . . in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness therewith, and their thoughts one with another accusing or else excusing them);
Matthew Henry’s Commentary explains this so well as follows,(His writings are placed in bold script):
.. . they had a sense of justice and equity, honour and purity, love and charity; the light of nature taught obedience to parents, pity to the miserable, conservation of public peace and order, forbade murder, stealing, lying, perjury, etc. Thus they were a law unto themselves. Conscience is a witness, and first or last will bear witness, though for a time it may be bribed or brow-beaten. It is instead of a thousand witnesses, testifying of that which is most secret; and their thoughts accusing or excusing, passing a judgment upon the testimony of conscience by applying the law to the fact. Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out, no, not in the Gentile world.
The heathen have witnessed to the comfort of a good conscience:
- Hic murus aheneus esto,
Nil conscire sibi -
Be this thy brazen bulwark of defence,
Still to preserve thy conscious innocence.
- Hor.
and to the terror of a bad one:
- Quos diri conseia facti
Mens habet attonitos, et surdo verbere caedit -
No lash is heard, and yet the guilty heart
Is tortur’d with a self-inflicted smart
- Juv. Sat. 13.
But observe how he puts it to the sinner’s conscience (Rom_2:3): Thinkest thou this, O man? O man, a rational creature, a dependent creature, made by God, subject under him, and accountable to him. The case is so plain that we may venture to appeal to the sinner’s own thoughts: “Canst thou think that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? Can the heart-searching God be imposed upon by formal pretences, the righteous Judge of all so bribed and put off?” The most plausible politic sinners, who acquit themselves before men with the greatest confidence, cannot escape the judgment of God, cannot avoid being judged and condemned.
Those that refuse to be the servants of truth will soon be the slaves of unrighteousness. [2.] The products or instances of these frowns: Indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish. These are the wages of sin. Indignation and wrath the causes – tribulation and anguish the necessary and unavoidable effects. And this upon the soul;
(Romans 2:5-9) “but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; who will render to every man according to his works: to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life: but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;”
. . .the provocation is expressed by treasuring up wrath. Those that go on in a course of sin are treasuring up unto themselves wrath. A treasure denotes abundance. It is a treasure that will be spending to eternity, and yet never exhausted; and yet sinners are still adding to it as to a treasure. They are treasured up against the day of wrath, when they will be dispensed by the wholesale, poured out by full vials. Though the present day be a day of patience and forbearance towards sinners, yet there is a day of wrath coming-wrath, and nothing but wrath. Indeed, every day is to sinners a day of wrath, for God is angry with the wicked every day (Psa_7:11), but there is the great day of wrath coming, Rev_6:17. And that day of wrath will be the day of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God. The wrath of God is not like our wrath, a heat and passion; no, fury is not in him (Isa_27:4): but it is a righteous judgment, his will to punish sin, because he hates it as contrary to his nature. This righteous judgment of God is now many times concealed in the prosperity and success of sinners, but shortly it will be manifested before all the world, these seeming disorders set to rights, and the heavens shall declare his righteousness, Psa_50:6. Therefore judge nothing before the time.
(Romans 1:19-21) “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness; because that which is known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested it unto them. For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.”
The workman is known by his work. The variety, multitude, order, beauty, harmony, different nature, and excellent contrivance, of the things that are made, the direction of them to certain ends, and the concurrence of all the parts to the good and beauty of the whole, do abundantly prove a Creator and his eternal power and Godhead. Thus did the light shine in the darkness. And this from the creation of the world. Understand it either, [1.] As the topic from which the knowledge of them is drawn. To evince this truth, we have recourse to the great work of creation. , Mar_16:15. The frame and structure of human bodies, and especially the most excellent powers, faculties, and capacities of human souls, do abundantly prove that there is a Creator, and that he is God. Or, [2.] As the date of the discovery. It as old as the creation of the world. In this sense apo ktiseo?s is most frequently used in scripture. These notices concerning God are not any modern discoveries, hit upon of late, but ancient truths, which were from the beginning. The way of the acknowledgement of God is a good old way; it was from the beginning. Truth got the start of error.
When truth is forsaken, errors multiply in infinitum – infinitely.
The foolishness and practical wickedness of the heart cloud and darken the intellectual powers and faculties. Nothing tends more to the blinding and perverting of the understanding than the corruption and depravedness of the will and affections. (5.) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Rom_1:22.
This looks black upon the philosophers, the pretenders to wisdom and professors of it. Those that had the most luxuriant fancy, in framing to themselves the idea of a God, fell into the most gross and absurd conceits: and it was the just punishment of their pride and self-conceitedness. It has been observed that the most refined nations, that made the greatest show of wisdom, were the arrantest fools in religion. the law of nature, not only as it is in their hearts, corrupted, defaced, and imprisoned in unrighteousness, but as in the uncorrupt original the Judge keeps by him.
Friends, this commentary by Matthew Henry on the verses in Romans gives us a perspective on the heart of those involved doing abortions and other gross sins.
Please pray for the salvation of the workers in the Building For Women and the Womens Health Center. They certinly are storing up treasure, but not the kind you nor I would want!
The days in Duluth are getting much colder, please pray for the sidewalk counselors to be strong and not get too cold as we are out in front of the building for hours each week.
Please pray for a car for one of the counselors who has to travel a good distance. She needs a dependable car with good gas mileage.
Please pray for wisdom as we talk to the women going in for an abortion, that we will listen to God and say what He leads.
Pray for the parents going in for abortions, they are told by the abortionist not to talk to us and to ignore us, so they are pretty callous to anything we say to them. Go figure! The abortionist surely doesn’t want to loose any costumers, less money! But we know that God is greater then the words of any person, so we seek Him to speak to their hearts and minds, perhaps through just our presence, or some word He may give us by His Spirit move them.
Thank you so much for prayer!
God bless you who are His. All glory to the Lord Jesus Christ forever, the Savior of all who will turn to Him and believe and repent of their sins and call upon His Name!
In His love,
Sarah
