Pastor Preaches at Mill

The Call to Turn Back Before Abortion

Inside of Acacia Women's Center, you must understand that now is the time for you to act. Now is the time to do the thing that you know to be right. Now is the time to come to the rescue of your own baby.

So you plan to bring your child in here, to have your child taken from you, killed, murdered in God's sight, but now is the time to change your mind. Now is the time to come to your senses. Now is the time to do the right thing because you're going to wish that you could go back in time.

You're going to wish you would have walked out of those glass doors. You would wish you would have said, you know what, I'm not doing it to the people inside. You're going to wish that you could go back in time and never ever drive into Acacia Women's Center parking lot because of all the pain and misery and shame and guilt that this is going to bring upon you.

That's why we're here. We're trying to come between you and the worst decision that you could possibly make. But just a few moments ago, maybe five to ten minutes ago, the abortion doctor came in. His red test and he ran very quickly into the door and he's headed your way.

You don't do the right thing if you don't come to the aid of your child right now and don't go through with the abortion. He's going to invade your womb. He's going to tear the baby's body apart if you're that far along or he's going to take a vacuum and suck your baby's body apart piece by piece or he's chemically going to kill your child.

Love of Neighbor and the Duty to Protect the Unborn

But this is the wrong thing to do. God has commanded us to be here to love you. God has commanded us to be here to love our neighbor, to put you before ourselves. And so we are pleading with you and we and ourselves, we beg you not to go through with this.

Don't let them take the life of your precious little boy. Don't let them take the life, rob you of the joy of your precious little daughter. If it's a daughter, this is a wrong path. You think this is the right thing to do.

You're looking at your checking account. You're looking at the people in your life. You're saying, you know what, this is unplanned. This is just not something that I can handle right now. But understand, regardless of the fact that it was planned or not, regardless of the means of conception, regardless of your own readiness, that is a precious, innocent, developing human being inside of your womb that you must protect, that you must defend, that you must come to the aid to.

That is what God commands us to do. That is why we're here, because the Bible says, rescue those who cannot rescue themselves. Defend those who are being delivered to death. So that is our duty as men.

That is our duty. A lot of people say, well, why do you come out here? You're a man. You don't have the anatomy of a woman. Therefore, you do not have any say in this argument. No, honorable men, what we do is we come to a place that destroys innocent human beings that cannot defend themselves.

We come to that place and we do all that we can do to protect them. We do all that we can do to come and interpose, because that's what honorable men do. No, honorable men do not come into a place real swiftly to do what they can do as fast as they can to destroy innocent human life.

And the abortion doctor, if you can hear my voice, God commands you to repent. God commands you to stop this bloodshed. God commands you to stop what you're doing here. This bloodshed is not permissible before God.

This is not okay with him. Mom, believe me, God has called us out here to give you the message. He does not want you to have this abortion. More heavy than that is the Word of God, the law of God commands you not to do this abortion.

This abortion is the exact same thing as murder. You might not see it as murder. You might call it your reproductive right. You might think that this is the beneficial decision for you and your future or where you are right now.

But no, this is the wrong decision to make. This is you putting your own body, your own self, your own plans, your own desires before the welfare of your child. God did not create you to do that. God did not create mothers to put the welfare or fathers to put the welfare of themselves before the welfare of their own children.

Mom, you got to rise up and be the strong woman that God has created you to be. God did not create you in weakness. God did not create you to be a sinfully weak woman that would come here and would abdicate a responsibility as a mother.

God did not come here to discard that responsibility in the medical waste bin. That's what they're going to do if you don't act right now. If you don't act right now with love for your child, with mercy for your child, with concern for your child, what they're going to do is they're going to go in, rip the child apart.

They're going to throw the child's body in a medical waste bin. They're going to invade your womb with stainless steel instruments. Ma 'am, coming out of Planned Parenthood or Acacia Women's Center, we would beg you, regardless of the services that you're receiving there, do not come back to this place.

Do not give these people the resources and the support that they need to kill more babies. The reason why we come out here is because Acacia Women's Center destroys innocent human life. Acacia Women's Center, if you stop the destruction of innocent human beings in the womb, we will gladly go.

It brings us no joy. It brings us no happiness. We actually dread coming here and looking like fools to the people around us. No, it brings us no joy. But what goes on here necessitates us coming out here and interposing on behalf of these babies to come between an oppressor and their intended victim.

And that's exactly what Acacia Women's is. They're an oppressor of life. They're a destroyer of life. Acacia Women's Center, how many future men and future women have you killed in the womb, not even giving them the right to live on this planet that God has created for us, for his purposes and for his glory?

Human Life, Dehumanization, and the Image of God

So mom, we beg you, show mercy to this child. God commands you not to murder. God commands you to stop this wicked act. The Bible says this, that God hates the hands that shed innocent blood, that God hates this activity, that God has called us, his Christians, his sons out here to love our neighbor as ourself.

That means all the effort that we put into preserving and conserving and surviving itself, that we are supposed to do that now in the direction of our neighbor. And mom, you're our neighbor and the baby's our neighbor.

That baby is a human at the moment of fertilization, that at that moment of fertilization, mom, God gave you the tremendously blessed gift of motherhood. God gave you a great responsibility, a great calling and a great duty.

At that moment when the sperm entered the egg, that's when life began and that is when motherhood began. Motherhood does not begin when the baby exits the birth canal, just like life does not begin when the baby exits the birth canal.

The baby is a living human organism. Of course, Acacia Women's Center is going to redefine terms. They're going to conceal the truth. What they're going to do is redefine the baby and the womb in such a way that the humanity is robbed from the baby in that definition.

Because we know all throughout history that when you dehumanize a certain people group, when you call them less than human, then because man is totally depraved, is sinfully in his nature, it will be open game on that people group.

We saw that in the Holocaust in mid -20th century Germany. What did Hitler do so well? He dehumanized the Jews. He dehumanized all sorts of segments of society. He dehumanized the mentally impaired. He dehumanized the Russians.

He dehumanized homosexuals. He dehumanized those that were human so that he could kill them, so that he could exterminate them in his insanity. But that is an exact parallel of what Acacia Women's Center is doing even today, as well as Planned Parenthood and different abortion clinics all throughout this valley and the nation and the world.

They've dehumanized the baby in the womb, defining them erroneously, unscientifically, illogically, defining them less than human so that these children can be killed. You have to ask yourself, why? Why?

Why would humans do that? Why would we attack the most oppressed people group? Why would we do this heinous thing? Well, the Bible says that we are either in the kingdom of light or the kingdom of darkness.

That we are either sons of God by his grace and mercy and his election and choosing, or we are sons of the devil inside of the kingdom of darkness. John chapter 8, Jesus says, doing the work. You have to understand clearly, if you can hear my voice, that the work of the devil is to destroy.

That we are not free. We are slaves to our sin. If we are not in Christ, if we are not in the family of God, then we are slaves to our sin, doing the work of the devil. And the Bible says it's his will to seek those whom he can steal from, kill, and destroy.

He's like a roaring lion. And so amazingly, you might not believe this, but this is the work of Satan being done here. Don't be partied with the work of the devil. Don't be partied with his work to destroy everything created in the image of God.

Mom, your baby is created in the image of God. Every single one of us, the detectives out here, my friends, everybody that walks by, they're created in the image of the God. The God that we all know exists, our creator, and our maker, and our sustainer.

Jesus is our creator. Jesus is the king of kings and the Lord of lords, the king of the universe. He is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. He's the only begotten son of God. He is the one that we will stand before and give an account on our day of judgment.

Judgment, Repentance, and the Final Accounting Before God

So mom, believe me, you may drive out of here. We don't see any doors opening right now. We don't see the abortion doctor falling to his knees in repentance. We believe that that would happen. We don't see the change of mind.

We see a hardening of the heart that the moms in there are resolute to go about with the killing of their babies. We pray that you would change your mind. We would beg you to change your mind. God commands you to repent.

That does mean to change your mind, to change your ways. Turn from your sinful course. Turn from these wicked plans to have your own baby killed. Tell them you're not going to do it and come out. But you may do it.

We beg you not to. You may do it, but you're not going to get away with it. The Bible says that God has fixed a day when he will judge this world in righteousness, and that by the man, Christ Jesus. The word of God says this, that it is once for us to die, and then comes the judgment.

That we will stand before the maker of the universe. We will stand before our creator, our God, our king, our king, and your king. You will stand before him, and you will give an account for your life.

The deeds that you've done in the flesh, the thoughts that you've thought, the words that you've spoken, the deeds that you've done. And we are found guilty on that day. The penalty for all sinners will be an everlasting punitive sentence in a place called hell, unendingly, forever.

We don't want that for you. But on that day of judgment, you're going to stand before him. You're going to look him in the face, and he is going to judge you, not according to your own standards. He's not going to judge you according to the way that you see life, the way that you define terms, the supposed truth that you came up for yourself, which is an impossibility.

But he's going to define, he's going to judge you by the perfect standard of his holy law, based upon his perfect character. God is going to judge you based upon his ten commandments, his law, and his character.

If we have stolen even one thing, even something small, then we are a guilty thief. If we have lied even one time, and we all have. We don't come out here professing any type of self-righteous perfectionism.

We don't come out here saying that we are better than anyone. The Bible says all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. No, we are dead in our sins. We all are lawbreakers. We all are rebels and haters of God in our own very nature.

So if you have broken his law, he's going to see you as a lawbreaker. If you have even hated your brother in your heart, he sees that as murder. But listen to me very clearly, that what God sees here at Acacia Women's Center is murder.

This is murder. This is the breaking, the transgressing of God's law. And so what he's going to see you as on the day of your judgment is a murder. He's going to point his finger in your face and say, why did you kill your own child when I commanded you not to?

When I sent my sons out here to love you, and to care for you, and give you the help that you need.