This Is Why: The Problem Of Idolatry

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In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court today legalized abortions. Supreme Court.

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Abortions. Legalized. Abortions. Abortions.

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This is why abortion is still legal, the problem of idolatry. As one theologian says, man's nature is a perpetual factory of idols.

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That statement aligns well with the testimony of all scripture, and that is that we were made to worship.

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God made us for himself, and yet because of the problem of our sin, we don't want him. Although his existence is evident in everything he's made, we suppress this truth.

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Presented with the infinite glory and pleasure of the incorruptible God, we foolishly refuse to honor him and instead worship some other created thing.

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This rebellion is as tragic as it is brazen against the very one who has given us life.

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Now what does this have to do with abortion? Abortion is false worship. You see, everyone has something that they hold to be the ultimate.

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It's that thing, or even that person, that sits on the throne of our hearts.

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Whatever that thing is that we give glory to, that occupies the weight in our lives, it becomes the thing that we can't bear the thought of losing or living our lives without.

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The problem with idols is that we are seeking to find in them what we were only made to have in God himself.

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Whether it's comfort, security, the approval of others, significance, or peace, or freedom, there are things that we hold so closely that we are willing to sacrifice anything in order to keep them.

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Abortion -minded mothers know that what they are doing is sin against the

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Holy God and that they will stand before him to be judged and given account. Rather than trusting in the only sacrifice that can save them, they are rejecting the

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Son of God and offering up their own sons and daughters for their sins.

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But the only shed blood that will make an end of sin and satisfy the wrath of God, the just, is the perfect, spotless

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Lamb of God who was executed so that we would trust in his work rather than our own works, attempting to offer up the fruit of our bodies for the sin of our souls.

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See, this is what makes the gospel such good news. In Christ, God not only forgives you of your sins, but restores you to true worship.

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For the abortion -minded, this means going from bowing down to the God of your will to bowing down before the will of your

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God. Ever since the beginning, the temptation of humanity is to be the source of our own law, to be our own authority, to decide for ourselves between good and evil, even down to the question of who gets to live and who dies.

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We fashion ourselves as functional deities, arrogantly believing that we write our own stories, that we're self -creating, which means that if a baby isn't part of our happy ending, then we can simply write insects and delete the consequence of a child.

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But the reality of the choice in an abortion is a choice between enslavement to a false god or freedom under the rule of the true

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God, Jesus Christ. If abortion is to end once and for all, counterfeit saviors need to be dethroned.

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And the only way this happens is if we call on a culture in love with death to turn from sin and embrace the beauty, glory, and eternal satisfaction of the