How Do Churches Do This Ministry?

Prayer for the Church and for the Work Ahead

Let me pray and we'll begin father. We thank you that you are so good and gracious and merciful to us each and every second. We breathe only because you caused us to we live only because you you grant that to us every day.

You're God full of mercy and grace and goodness and we worship you and exalt you and we pray that as time goes on and the Church becomes active that you would be even more glorified and honored Lord. I pray that you would Allow your words to ring true within the hearts of your elect within the hearts of your people and I pray all the words that I would have to contribute would just fall to the ground.

I pray and everything that I say you would be glorified and I pray that you would motivate your church always to action. It's in Jesus's name. We pray. Amen. So it is extremely encouraging to see everybody here because you're here.

I think to be educated on how you can Rescue your unborn neighbor. Now what we have to understand and make sure we remind ourselves as Christians is that God never uses the majority to do his work. Sometimes in this church, even though it's beautiful.

We look around and see not not too many Christians side-by-side and we can become Unnecessarily discouraged but because if you look all throughout Scripture God always uses the few to do the much. Of course, you see that in the life of Gideon this pastor Luke already explained.

But we don't worry about the people to our right and our left. We just say God I'm gonna be faithful with the commands that you've given me I'm gonna be faithful to what you've commanded me to do and that's all I can worry about.

The Church's Duty in the Face of Abortion

So it is. It's extremely encouraging one of the most discouraging aspects of even though in light of the small numbers one of those discouraging aspects of the fight is is the General attitude of apathy within the church in the in the states.

We have thousands of abortion clinics and it's discouraging to know day by day that precious image bears regard are being destroyed torn apart torn apart in their mother's wombs and Not only the baby is destroyed in the wombs, but they did, you know abortion destroys everything.

That's why we go because abortion brings nothing but but death. It's a plague. It's a scourge upon any nation that has it going in its nation. So that's why we do it.

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But even in light of the the prevailing apathy of the Greater Evangelical Church, there has been a positive increase in Christians willing to crucify their themselves really willing to To go before this culture with an attitude of love and in the power of the Holy Spirit preaching the gospel.

So again, it's wonderful that you hear the federally sanctioned the hell of child murder has been unleashed upon your nation and Believe me you'll be in our prayers because as Abortion is really active within a nation.

Then comes the judgment of God then comes the effect. Abortion is a scourge and actually the scriptures say that the blood of the innocent Cry out to God for justice the blood of the innocent cry out to God for justice.

It's like abortion is a cancer upon any nation where it's legalized. So we're gonna be praying for you as this Unfolds but it's our duty as pastor Luke said it is the duty of the church to confront this.

Proverbs 8 or 31 8 through 9 says open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth judge righteously and plead the cause of the poor and the needy. You've heard this verse many times.

You're gonna hear it again. Proverbs 24 11 12 of thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn into death and those that are ready to be slain if thou sayest behold. We know it not. Doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it and he that keepeth thy soul doth not he know it.

And shall not he render to every man according to his works. So it is our duty because no one else is going to do this work. It's our duty to love our pre-born neighbor. It's our duty to confront this great evil against our God and our neighbor because again.

No one else is going to do it man in his natural state. Depraved because of sin corrupted because of sin he hates God. He doesn't want to do anything for the glory of God and because man in his sin hates God.

He hates his neighbor because his neighbor bears the image of the God that he hates. So as we look upon the ills again that are all throughout the nation, whatever they may be abortion and sex trafficking.

I mean the list goes on and on we can only handle one at a time as a church. But as we look at all these great evils. It's never our duty just to shrug our shoulders and believe that we can pass that buck of responsibility to a different person it's our duty and unless we as the church rise up and And obey the duty obey the commands and attend to our duty.

Then the evil just continues to Vastly proliferate all over the land. We are not. God does not have a plan B. The church is his plan and really.

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Involvement of the church all down throughout history and even today the in involvement of the church or again the cowardice of the church inactivity the church always leads to the destruction and the decay of a nation.

All world suffers when the church is Inactive all world suffers when the church follows after other fleshly pursuits rather than again intending attending to the the commands of Christ. So the purpose of my message today, I'm going to try to move through it as quickly as I can.

My preacher gave me some good advice. My pastor when I was training how to teach and preach. He said you son you need to stand up speak up shut up and sit down. So that's I can. I can almost see him looking at me so many years ago.

So I'm gonna do that just that so I'm gonna be talking about foundational principles that will ensure Effective abortion ministry now right off the bat our situation in the States is much different than yours.

So these are principles that are transferable regardless of where you are. So the logistics are very much different. I was talking to Pastor Peter's wife and she said well, we don't have clinics here.

We have maternity wards where these things are happening. So again, I don't expect to know all the details but all I'll promise you this all you have to do is go to end abortion now calm and You can go to the contact page and if you'd like my help and figuring all of this out I will be happy to help you.

I've done it, too. I've done it for many other ministries and many other many other history or issues. So all you have to do is help but I understand it's different. But I want to give you principles that you can stand on that will that will absolutely.

Make sure you're gonna be effective because we know that if we're not standing on principle. Then it dramatically affects the ministry that we endeavor to do. Before we get into the principles I think I'd be remiss to not go into the cost of this type of fight because no matter what we do as Christians It always comes with a cost.

The Cost of Faithful Ministry at the Killing Centers

As you go out and you figure this out and you go to be a light at these killing centers, which we must. There are places these are these are places where our neighbors are being destroyed and the presence of the church Must be at this place because the darkness will always increase if there is no light.

The church with the gospel the church loving their neighbor at these killing places is the light that dispels the darkness. So if we don't go to these killing places, then the darkness just becomes increasingly more dark.

And it's a compounded it a Compounded effect. We must go to these killing places when you go out there. You can expect verbal abuse. Possible physical abuse. We've been spit on punch-shoved guns have been pulled on us.

Death threats good friend of mine lost his job attack on your reputation law enforcement comes out and tries to push their weight around in a very Aggressive and abusive way. Personal property damage.

We've had people try to run Us-over many many times as well as our all of our property. They've succeeded and and destroying much of our gear vehicle damage theft just the deep depression in. The heartache of day by day going to these places and knowing that moms and dads are killing their own offspring actually Paying someone can you imagine actually paying someone to kill their own precious beautiful baby daughter or baby boy in the womb?

It's unthinkable unthinkable, that's what we've dealt with and That's what you are dealing with now. And so what we want to do is come here in Dramatic humility not and not as if we figured all this out.

We learned from our mistakes and we hope by what we've learned we can have you can avoid many pitfalls that we've run into. Even though it's difficult to go out there and it costs it's very costly and there's a lot of pain involved.

Jesus or the scriptures never really falsely romanticize Serving Christ. It's always been hard and costly and it will always be hard and costly. We have to we have to face that fact because I know in myself I'd rather I'd rather pursue the comfort the comfortable route.

I'd rather be loved by people than hated. But if we pursue that then we in turn cannot obey the commands of Christ. Look what Paul says just about general ministry in 2nd Corinthians 4 7 through 11. He says but we have this this treasure and earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.

We are troubled on every side yet yet not distressed. We are perplexed but not in despair persecuted, but not forsaken cast out but not destroyed. Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus's sake that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh again. God does not promise a comfortable life for Christians as we pursue that Comfort over duty it leads to apathy and apathy leads to indifference and indifference always leads to in Inactivity.

No, Jesus makes it clear how we're going to be treated. Especially in this battle for the pre-born. He says in Luke 21 17 and ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. So we just might must know I'm gonna be hated for this.

I'm gonna receive abuse for this. But obeying Christ and his commands honoring God and obedience is worth is worth at all. John 15 18 to 20 21 says if the world hated you, you know that it hated me before I hated you.

If you were of the world the world would love his own. But because you're not of the world that I have chosen you out of the world. Therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you the servant is not greater than his Lord if they persecuted me.

They will also persecute you if they have kept my saying. They will keep yours also, but all these things they they do unto you for my name's sake because they know not him who sent me. As we learn from history very quickly from history 150 years ago in my nation, of course, it was legal the To buy and sell slaves or african-american brothers and sisters that we know that when Christians do choose comfort and pleasures To the neglect of Jesus's commands our most oppressed neighbors will always suffer.

It has happened and it will happen. So now the pre-born baby in the womb is the most oppressed people group and because they're the most oppressed people group. They require our immediate attention. There are levels of urgency within Ministry endeavors there are levels of urgency and I think that this issue with child murder Has a very light has a very high level of urgency and it needs our it needs our attention.

So we learn throughout history. We choose comfort it equals oppression it equals the degradation of society all around us but when Christians come out of the salt shaker, right and be the salt of the earth in the light and simply obey Jesus.

Then by that activity of the church what we've learned and we will learn in an increasingly greater way as time goes on. That God puts great injustices like slavery and even abortion he puts these things under his feet as We would do what God has called us to and not Humbly and respectfully stay within the four walls of the church where we're protected.

Would go out into the culture and confront that culture empowered by the Holy Spirit. Abortion ministry is not only Incredibly difficult. I think that you need to hear that before you get into it, but it's joyful.

I mean thousands of pound upon thousands of babies have been saved thankfully for the through our ministry and all of our ministry Partners. I mean, here's the the big argument for abortion. No ministry when you go out to these places of death.

You know what happens? Babies are saved. When you go out to these places of death. And you begin to serve in the capacity that you can and again it starts out everything within the kingdom. Starts out like a mustard see it starts out small, but you go out faithful.

God will bless your efforts and he will save babies. It's just there's so much elation and joy when you're out there preaching the gospel and pleading for the mother. Please don't don't murder your baby.

We want to help you. Let us care for you. There's you can't imagine the joy when the mother drives out of the driveway and she whispers to you. I'm not gonna kill the baby. I'm gonna let the baby live.

There is joy out there even in light of all the pain and suffering. I was privileged to officiate the marriage of parents who Who let their twin baby girls live and these twin girls are so so beautiful little curly brown hair and just precious little baby.

Babies running around as we were doing the the wedding and they would not be alive today. They would be dead. They would have been discarded in the medical waste bin or their body parts would have been sold to the highest bidder.

If Christians weren't simply out there in fear and trembling pleading with the parents to not kill the baby. Preaching the gospel lifting up the name of Jesus if they had not been out there. Those twin baby girls would be dead now as well as thousands of other children running around this earth at this moment.

If Christians had not been involved and I think it's a man. What I take great joy in every time I get prepared to go to these killing places. Every week is the fact that this is the honorable thing for me to be doing as a man.

There's no greater. There's no greater feeling of satisfaction Than to to be doing the honorable thing to be doing the right thing. That this is what this is the great evil of the day at 150 years ago.

It was slavery. I wasn't there. I would hope that I would have risen up and and fought against that wickedness in 20th century Germany. I hope as my Jewish brothers were destroyed. I would hope that I would have risen up.

And actually fought against this great wickedness. But now what I can do in this day against this great evil is I can make the honorable decision be the man that God has Designed me to be not a timid man.

Not a timid man that falters and falls away to cowardice and compromise. But actually stands his ground and lets his family know what a true man is a man of honor. So there is no greater satisfaction Than doing the right thing and this is the right thing to do.

Six Foundational Principles for Effective Abortion Ministry

So what I have for you the remaining time there's six principles that I can apply to you again. Whatever nation you're at and whatever situation you might find yourself to be in. Foundational principles.

Biblical principles can never be compromised or neglected if we compromise foundational principles. Then we will not have any type of effective ministry whatsoever to feet have to be firmly planted. On principles that we pull out of the scriptures because right principle always drives right practice.

Right biblical principle will always drive your practice that how it fleshes out. And of course in front of these killing places Psalm 11 3 says that the foundations be destroyed. What can the righteous do without these foundational principles?

We can do nothing. The first Principle which is it's crucially important is we work to rescue babies for the glory of God. We work to rescue our neighbors for his glory and his glory alone. First Corinthians 1031 says.

Whether you therefore you eat or drink or whatever you do do all to the glory of God so what comes under us like an umbrella or over us like an umbrella is Everything done for the glory of God in submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

We do it for him because he gives his glory to want to know other. Isaiah 42 a says I am the Lord. That is my name and my glory. Will I not give to another neither my praise to graven? Images abortion is a wicked wicked evil against our neighbors.

But if we were to do this the right way, we have to understand this is a wicked evil against our God. This is a blight against him. It's a blight against his name. This is ultimately that ongoing attack of the enemy against God because he is so desire of his desirous of his glory.

Why why are people so prone to kill babies because they are their father the devil, right? They are of their father the devil and we know that he wants to dash and smash and kill as we all see all Throughout scripture image bearers of God because he's jealous of that glory.

That only is reserved for the one true God. But we go out there and it might sound a little different. We go to the mill primarily for God primarily for him for the sake of his name for the praise of his name for the proliferation and the dissemination of his good gospel and Secondarily is for our neighbor go to glorify and honor him and the results we leave to his Divine prerogative and his divine will we leave that to his sovereign choice and his sovereign pleasure?

John Quincy Adams was our Sixth president an amazing man. I would really encourage you to do some historical research on him but he fought against the slavery or the the sin of slavery and He died in 1848 the emancipation Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1860 1865 he he unfortunately didn't get to see the results of all his work, but for 18 years.

Every single Monday morning John Quincy Adams would stand before Congress and he would preach the law and the gospel to them Commanding them as the magistrates to do their duty and to protect their nation's inhabitants.

18 years our sixth president. He was a fiery guy. He was a they used to call him the hellhound of heaven and they would do everything. And they tried to get a gag order because he was just relentless in his preaching and his confrontation of the nation with this great Evil, but they couldn't do it.

But he said this great quote. He said duty is ours really simple results are God's. Duty is ours results are God. We got we have to understand is in this fight. We cannot be results focus. So many Christians say if only I could see the quote-unquote fruit of what I'm doing.

I think we really have to understand what fruit means biblically. But they say if only I could see the fruit of what I'm doing maybe Save babies or save souls even those those things are outside of our ability to do.

No, we are not driven by results or fruit. We're driven by faithfulness. If we set our minds on glorifying his name and not ours. It affects all that we do and it aligns all that we do. But if we set our minds on using this type of ministry just to glorifies glorify ourself.

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Detrimentally affects what we do if we get into this ministry for our own namesake to acquire the praises of men or to Impossibly like unfortunately so much of the Roman Catholic Church to merit our own salvation through religious activity.

We do all that then we are doomed from the get-go. All of our efforts will fail miserably and will be burned up when we stand before God if we are doing this With self-centered focus. James 4 6 is. But he giveth more grace.

Wherefore he saith God resisted the proud but giveth grace to the humble. Can you imagine this all the work that you put in? All the effort especially in this ministry where you're dying to self and having to go to these horrible places.

Putting all the work in for the Lord. When God says I was resisting everything that you've done because you've done it all for yourself. You did it all for the praises and accolades of man. So we can't do this for our own praise we have to do this for for his praise.

Or we will be impotent and all that we do second. Second principle we must love everyone involved with child murder as we work to rescue babies. We must love everyone involved with child murder as we work to rescue babies.

Some people easier to love than Than others, right? Some that might be in your own household. It's sometimes it's hard to love people and in this environment. Out there when you're receiving so much abuse when you're receiving so much hostility from people that you're simply trying to help and lay your life down for and They give you that hatred.

It's it's hard to respond and love but it's absolutely crucial because again If we are not loving in this ministry endeavor in this in this effort. Then all that we'll do will be all for not and that's what the scriptures explain first.

Corinthians 13 1 through 3 says though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity I Become as a sounding brass or a tinkling symbol and though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and though I have all faiths so that I Could remove mountains and have not charity I'm nothing and though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not Charity it profiteth me nothing.

That's how God sees ministry. Can you imagine all the work that was put into that all that giving and sacrifice? But the Apostle Paul inspired by the Holy Spirit He says if I'm not loving through all of these activities motivated by love and all these activities, then it's nothing.

It's nothing to him if we're not motivated by love and Being loving important being loving towards the workers moms. Even the abortionists our abortionists likes to run almost run us over as he enters the clinic.

Then our efforts will be worthless. Good question is how do we love them? How do we love them? Primarily love is not just something that we say it's not some emotion that we feel. I think one of the best definitions for love and I think the best biblical Explanation of what love is is that love desires to give to others at the expense of self?

That's what love is but we share the truth according to God's Word and the gospel. That is how we love our neighbor at the highest level is when you open your mouth. And you share the good news of grace in Jesus Christ when you share the true gospel.

That's how you love them those who love their neighbor In and out of the womb at the highest level those who share the gospel with them the greatest lovers on this planet of course are Regenerant Christians filled with the Holy Spirit knowledgeable with knowledgeable and equipped with the true gospel.

Giving that gospel because we are attending to our neighbors greatest need and that is the healing of his soul. That is his. That's his that's his soul. We love them not only by Sharing with them the truth, but we love them by speaking.

This is important speaking the truth in love with them. We know and I know you could just go on YouTube if you ever gone on that. We can hear a lot of preachers who might have a lot of good truth that they are speaking forward or forth.

But they're not speaking the truth in love. They're speaking the truth in hatred. But the Bible commands to speak the truth in love Ephesians 4 15. But speaking the truth in love make may grow up and to all things which is the head even Christ it does matter especially in this this battleground of abortion mill ministry to be speaking in a way That's biblical and speaking in a way that's exemplary of Christ and how he would speak if we're Destructively combative out there or we're condemning not self-controlled out of balance Overbearing harsh or graceless then we're not speaking the truth in love.

And as I said This ministry can affect you Dramatically, I've never known a ministry environment that can affect you so dramatically and have a tendency to pull the worst out of you just because it's painful to be out there the darkness and the evil of that place is so palpable.

A good friend of ours says it's the gates of hell and it is the place where the enemy is so Successfully doing what he desires and that's to steal and to kill and destroy. But the darkness you can be overcome by the darkness of the place.

That's why Romans 12 21 one of the most important Verses in this fight for the pre-born is so important says being not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good. We can be overcome by evil in that place not responding in love with patience and kindness.

But responding with vitriol and in vengefulness just responding to the flesh. So I want to encourage you that we must love everyone out there and make sure that we are not being so Taken over by this the darkness of that place that we were respond to our even our haters.

Obeying God's Command to Rescue Those Being Led to Death

With hate. Jesus says do good to those who persecute you do good to them show them kindness. Third principles and it's it's simple, but it's very important. We work to rescue babies because God has commanded us to do so.

You're gonna get a lot of questions from even your family members. I've been up and down the roller coaster. I think we can all attest to we have Christian family members and unsaved family members and when you start Fighting for the unborn or talking about things like abortion that can you can really get into disputes?

With your family members you can get kind of get questions like this. What do you what are you doing? Why are you spending your time on this? Why don't you get a job? This is what we hear out at the mill on the public sidewalks.

Why don't you do something? That's more meaningful. Why is this any of your business? So that's gonna come at these killing places as you go out. It's of course is gonna come in by the closest people around you.

But the simple answer and please don't be afraid just to trust in God's Word. God does not call us to change anyone's mind. Evangelism is primarily declarative rather than argumentative. But don't be don't be afraid to just tell the simple truth of what the scriptures say and leave it at that and leave the work of regeneration of the Holy Spirit and the heart of that person, but our answer to the question Why are we involved is because true Christians obey the commands of Scripture out of love for God and love for neighbors simple.

I'm a Christian and this is what Christians do. This is how Christians act in the face of the great evils that are thrust upon our nation. And are perpetrated against our neighbors. This is what we do as Christians.

Jesus says in John 14 15 if you love me keep my commandments in Proverbs 24 11 says if thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death and those that are ready to be slain. So Jesus says if you truly love me, it's not Demonstrated in words.

It's demonstrated in your obedience to my commands. And here is his command the commands of God to rescue those who are being delivered to death. Because God commands each and every single one of us and this is very important to love our neighbor.

That means each and every single one of us must be involved in this great atrocity. Against our neighbor now, that doesn't mean that every one of us in here are called to say to do the same thing or called To perform the same role.

What did Paul say in first Corinthians 12? He says we're the body of Christ and we all consist of different members. One's an arm one's a leg one's a hand one's a foot. We all play different roles. We all have different giftings and capabilities that the Spirit of God has given us, but we can all play a part.

It might be support or a prayer. My wife has never been to these killing places. Not even one time. But she's so instrumental and how she serves to care for my children and to care for me as I go out.

But it's important that we understand. That this is something that we all have to attend to. One of our good friends Jeff Rose says this abortion mill ministry is not a calling but it's a crisis and Sometimes in our desire just to avoid the pain and the cost of ministry and service to Christ.

We'll say things like well, this is not my calling. I'm called to do something else and isn't it? Funny most of the time when we say that we're called to do something that's more comfortable than this more times than not.

But when there's a crisis in our land in a crisis of this magnitude that Moms and dads are actually paying someone to kill their own offspring that we actually can bring human beings. That are human from the moment of fertilization.

To a place and pay some people to go up inside the womb of the mother which should be the safest place on the planet. Which should be a place of life and not death that we can pay them to rip apart of a human being it's a crisis of incredible magnitude and.

So whenever there's a crisis of this magnitude it requires that all hands be on deck. This principle is simple, but I hope it encourages and motivates us in the light of all the death and destruction.

I was asked a good question at lunchtime. What do you guys want to accomplish? Of course, we want to serve the church. We understand the key is always the local church. The key is always the people of God.

We're here in humble service to the church and at first in Ireland and now here in Scotland. What do we want to accomplish? We just want to be fellow brothers and sisters that through what we say which is only the Word of God it would inspire and Encourage you to be active in this fight.

No matter who you are gender age Background that it would inspire you and encourage you to be in this fight that's what we that's what we would hope because many of us I know pastor Luke and Pastor Jeff and myself as well.

As a lot of the a lot of the guys and a lot of the network that we deal with in the States that we were Sitting there just like you actually I was in 2013 at a street preachers conference just like you when a man would come up and preach on this subject and God took the word and just changed my life and For I've never been the same.

He just used the power of the Word the Spirit of God. To to enlist me in this battle and I pray that you would that's what we hope is accomplished. Okay, the fourth principle the work to rescue babies requires constant prayer and preparation.

Prayer, Scripture Memory, and Practical Preparation

Now as I was saying It's not going to be the same for us in the States as you here in Scotland. So it requires your prayer and your preparation. We think about it. I know it's a simple principle, but we're completely dependent upon God as we as we serve out there.

And we so we must continuously commit ourselves to prayer. We're praying that the Lord would be glorified and all that we do and no reproach would fall upon the name of Christ. Due to our activity that the Lord would be gracious to save souls and rescue babies.

The Lord would soften the hearts of mothers and dads. The Lord would give us boldness and words to effectively Communicate. The Lord would bring us this child murdering clinic to an end. We also pray of course in precatory prayers on these places of destruction and death.

But prayer is Absolutely essential without prayer. You will have no power. You must must must commit yourself to prayer as you're preparing. So we're not only Committing ourselves to prayer, but we're memorizing and reviewing the pertinent scriptures related to this fight.

There's a lot here. I'm not going to go through all the scriptures, but we must commit these scriptures to memory. So we have them at our hearts to give as we go out there to minister. Proverbs 6 16 through 19.

I think a portion of scripture that I have Pleaded and preached at the killing centers hundreds of times if not thousands of times now. But it says these six things doth the Lord hate. He's seven are an abomination unto him.

A proud look a lying tongue and hands that shed innocent blood. I heard the devices wicked Imaginations feet that be swift in Running to mischief. A false witness that speaketh lies and he that soweth discord among his brothers that God hates.

The shedding of innocent blood. Why are you here out here? You get that question because God hates this abominable activity, but it's amazing if you would look through those three verses. Everything that God hates happens regularly out at the killing centers.