In Defense of Life!

Stand in the Gap with Sam Rohrer — Is defending life important to you?

            Once upon a time there was a nation where freedom and liberty prevailed.  A life was sacred, defended and nurtured. People came from all around the world to live in this nation which opened its arms to all who sought liberty and loved life.

            This nation embraced the God of heaven as creator of all and believed that God breathed into man the breath of life making every person valuable and sacred. 

            The parents and leaders of this nation taught their children that they were a gift of God and that God would bless the nation that revered life with a fulfilling earthly life and the hope of an eternal heavenly life. 

            This nation adopted the ten commandments given by God and build their laws upon them and hung them at least for a while in every public schoolroom and every courtroom across the nation. 

            This nation observed all the commandments, the first commandment, “thou shalt have no other God’s before Me”, and they built a culture of respect, and they said eventually, In God We Trust. 

They rejected that counter worship of man. The believed the sixth commandment that said, “Thou Shalt Not Murder.”  That it was designed to protect the sacredness of life by requiring the life of all who intentionally destroyed an innocent life.   

And against all odds this nation became great, the greatest super power, the greatest economic power, the greatest military power and the greatest defender of freedom and truth in the history of the world.

But then this nation forgot God and replaced the worship of God with the worship of man and became the greatest destroyer of life.  They became so arrogant and defiant that they legally declared destroying life was just a choice and should be viewed as moral and good.

But what nation would do such a horrible thing?  Well certainly Israel of old, perhaps Hitler’s Germany.  But no nation seeing such a blessing of God would turn so far from God and became equally arrogant of God than our own blessed nation, the United States of America.

            Why is the defense of life so important for the continuance of freedom and religious liberty? And what is the culture of death; and why is it so destructive of freedom and religious liberty?