Dennis Tuuri

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The Lord reigneth. Let the people tremble. He sitteth between the cherubims. Let the earth be moved. The Lord is great in Zion, and he is high above all the people. Let them praise thy great and terrible name, for it is holy. The king’s strength also loveth judgment. Thou dost establish equity. Thou execute judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

Exalt ye the Lord our God and worship at his footstool for he is holy. Our help is in the name of the Lord on earth. Please stand. We’ll sing our opening hymn number 50. Number 50. Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation. Oh my soul, praise him, for he is thy help and salvation. All ye who hear not to his temples draw near. Join me in adoration. Praise to the Lord who are always so wondrously under his wings yet so gently sustained.

Thou wilt not see how thy desires are granted in what he ordained. Praise to the Lord who does prosper thy work and defend thee. Surely his goodness and mercy here attending honor of you what the Almighty will do. If with his love he be praise the Lord with marvelous wisdom and sing with. And now with loving and guided and safe, how often great he spreading his wings to our shame. Praise to the Lord. Let all that is in adore him. All that has life and breath come now with praises before him. Let me sound his people again. I we adore him.

You may be seated.

Brethren, in the early church there was a godly discipline that such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to public repentance and punished in this world that their souls might be saved in the day of the Lord and that others admonished by their example might be the more afraid to offend. But that discipline is sadly lacking in our day and until such discipline is restored again which is much to be desired, it is thought good that at this time should be read the general sentences of God’s cursing against impenitent sinners gathered out of the 27th chapter of Deuteronomy and other places of scripture and that you should answer to every sentence amen to the intent that being admonished to the great indignation of God against sinners you may the rather be moved to earnest and true repentance and may walk more wearily in these dangerous days fleeing from such vices for which you affirm with your own mouths the curse of God to be due.

Cursed is the man that maketh any carved or molten image to worship it. Amen. Cursed is he that curses his father or mother. Amen. Cursed is he that removes his neighbor’s landmark. Amen. Cursed is he that makes the blind to go out of his way. Amen. Cursed is he that perverts the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and widow. Amen. Cursed is he that smites his neighbor secretly. Amen. Cursed is he that lies with his neighbor’s wife. Amen. Cursed is he that takes a reward to slay the innocent. Amen. Cursed is he that puts his trust in man and takes man for his defense and in his heart goes from the Lord. Amen. Cursed are the unmerciful, fornicators and adulterers, covetous persons, idolaters, slanderers, drunkards, and extortioners. Amen.

Now, seeing that all who do err and go astray from the commandments of God are cursed, let us return unto the Lord our God with all contrition and meekness of heart, lamenting our sinful life, acknowledging and confessing our offenses, the sins of our nation, and seeking to bring forth worthy fruits of repentance. For now is the axe put unto the root of the trees, so that every tree that does not bring forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. He shall pour down rain upon the sinners, snares, fire, and brimstone, storm, and tempest. This shall be their portion to drink.

For behold, the Lord has come out of his place to visit the wickedness of such as dwell upon the earth. But who may abide in the day of his coming? Who shall be able to endure when he appears? His fan is in his hand, and he will purge his floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire. The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, and when men shall say, “Peace, and all things are safe,” then shall sudden destruction come upon them as sorrow comes upon a woman laboring with child, and they shall not escape.

Then shall appear the wrath of God in the day of vengeance, which obstinate sinners through the stubbornness of their heart, have heaped unto themselves, which despise the goodness, patience, and long-suffering of God, when he calls them continually to repentance. Then shall they call upon me, sayeth the Lord, and I will not hear. They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me. And that, because they hated knowledge, and received not the fear of the Lord, but had abhored my counsel and despised my correction.

Then it shall be too late to knock when the door shall be shut and too late to cry for mercy when it is time it is the time of justice. Oh terrible voice of most just judgment which shall be pronounced upon them when it shall be said unto them, “Go you cursed into the fire everlasting which is prepared for the devil and his angels.” Therefore, brethren, take heed now while the day of salvation lasts. For the night comes when no man can work. But let us while we have the light, believe in the light, and walk as children of the light, that we be not cast into utter darkness, where is weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Let us not abuse the goodness of God, who calls mercifully to amendment, and of his endless pity promises us forgiveness of our past sins, if with a perfect and true heart we return to him. For though our sins are as red as scarlet, they shall be made white as snow. And though they be like purple, yet they shall be made white as wool. Turn you, sayaith our God, from all your wickedness, and your sin shall not be your destruction. Cast away from you all your ungodliness that you have done. Make you new hearts and a new spirit. Why will you die, oh house of Israel, seeing that I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, sayeth the Lord God?

Turn you then, and you shall live. Although we have sinned, yet have we an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and he is the propitiation for our sins. For he was wounded for our transgressions and smitten for our wickedness. Let us therefore return unto him who is the merciful receiver of all true penitent sinners, assuring ourselves that he is ready to receive us and most willing to pardon us if we come unto him with faithful repentance, if we submit ourselves unto him and from henceforth walk in his ways.

If we will take his easy yoke and light burden upon us to follow him in loneliness, patience and charity, and be governed by the word and his holy spirit, seeking always his glory and serving him duly in our vocation with thanksgiving. This if we do, Christ will deliver us from the curse of the law and from the extreme malediction which shall fall upon them that shall be set on their left hand. And he will set us on his right hand and give us the gracious benediction of his father, commanding us to take possession of his glorious kingdom, unto which he promises to bring us all for his infinite mercy. Amen.

Let us all join now our voices together in a corporate confession of sin. Lord God, Almighty and everlasting Father, we acknowledge and confess before your holy majesty that we are poor sinners, born in corruption, inclined to evil and unable by ourselves to do good. And that every day and many transgress your holy commandments, thus calling upon ourselves your judgement, condemnation, and death. We further confess almighty God that we live in a sinful nation that annually murders millions of unborn children. We moan and bewail this wicked slaughter and repudiate this evil together with all who commit such crimes with all our heart.

Oh Lord, we are grieved because we along with our nation have offended you. We condemn ourselves and our sins in repentance. We turn again to your grace and implore you to suffer us in our distress. Have pity upon us, gracious God, father of mercies and pardon our sins for the love of Jesus Christ, your son, our savior. Grant to us and increase in us continually the graces of your holy spirit so that acknowledging our faults more and more we may grieve over them and renounce them with all our heart and may bear the fruits of righteousness and holiness which may be well pleasing in your sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Though our sins do stand against us, the punishment for them has been taken away in the finished sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. To all those who recognize that they are justly deserving of God’s condemnation and without hope save the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ being constrained to rest and rely on him alone for salvation the absolution of sins is affected in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen to the father and to the son and to the holy ghost as in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end. Amen. Amen.

If men strive and hurt a woman with child so that her fruit depart from her and yet no mischief follow, he shall be surely punished according as the woman his husband will lay upon him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, strike for strife.

Let us respond. Lord, have mercy upon us and our hearts to keep and enforce your holy law.

Now, let us join the church of all ages, confessing our faith in the words of the Apostles Creed. I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into hell and on the third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the father almighty. From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the holy ghost, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

Let’s sing Psalm number 83. It’s found in the little booklet. Sing a new song. Page 26.

Do not forget Oh mighty ones, you’re now your rise and make a clever your to and their nation. The name of Israel shall be no more. Together they might get to they have made a covenant. The Israelites of the Noah will. The high of single lamb of heaven. Behold the earth and church for a church who has come and join their forces. They are the power of the sons of God. Treat them like David’s army treat their wicked upon the ground and make the chief mighty nothing possess the lamb of God. My God will make them be like blind. Make them like before the wind that burns the woods like flames of lightning. Pursue them with your storms and strike with fear. Fill up their faces with humiliation and let them seek your name Jehovah again. Let them be turned and shame forever and let them be saved and he is strong.

Let them know you alone. You are Jehovah. You are the one most high all the earth.

For those of us who may not have sung that psalm before, it is Psalm 83 out of the scriptures and it’s the word of God.

In 1490, Queen Isabella’s commission to Columbus as he set out to find a new world was given for the glory of God. According to Columbus’s personal log, his purpose in seeking quote undiscovered worlds was to quote bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to the heathens. It was the Lord who put it into my hand, into my mind rather, the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. I am the most unworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Savior, if it is just, and if the intention is purely for his holy service.

In April 10, 1606, King James I in the Charter for the Settlement of Virginia said this. To the glory of his divine majesty and propagating of the Christian religion to such people as yet live in ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God.

November 11, 1620, the Mayflower Compact was signed to provide for rather lay the base for our first government in this country. Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower in the Covenant covenanted together quote for the glory of God and the advancement of Christian faith. This quote is for this next quote is from the Old South Leaflets September 26, 1642. These were rules and precepts that are observed in the College of Cambridge in Massachusetts Bay, now known as Harvard. Little different from today. This is what it said.

Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well. The main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life. John 17:3. And therefore to lay Christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom, let everyone seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it out of him. Proverbs 2:3.

Of the first 108 schools in America were founded on the Christian faith. May 19, 1643, the New England colonies of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Plymouth, and New Haven adopted the Articles of Confederation, which read thus, “Whereas we all came into these parts of America with one and the same end, and aim, namely to advance the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ and to enjoy the liberties of the gospel in purity with peace.

In August 1752, the inscription upon the Liberty Bell is made on the Liberty Bell, the quote is on it, “Proclaim liberty through all the land and to all the inhabitants thereof,” which is a direct quotation from Leviticus 25:10.

May 17, 1776, Congress appointed a day of fair prayer and fasting for the colonies so that they might quote, “By a sincere repentance and amendment of life, appease God’s righteous displeasure, and through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain his pardon and forgiveness.”

Samuel Adams, as the Declaration of Independence was being signed, said this, “We have this day restored the sovereign to whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven, and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let his kingdom come.”

An effort was started then to have Hebrew made the official language of the new nation. Quote, since it was the mother of language, is the key to the scriptures and the cornerstone of education. Commencement addresses at Yale and Harvard were delivered in Hebrew as late as 1817.

On July 4, Congress established a three-man committee to design a great seal for the United States. Committee members were Jefferson, John Adams, and Franklin. Ben Franklin. Jefferson proposed pictures of Israelites in the wilderness guided by pillar of fire by night and a cloud by day. Benjamin Franklin suggested the national model be quote, “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God” and quote, emblazed on an official seal depicting Moses parting the Red Sea for the Exodus to liberty.

50, perhaps as many as 52 of the 55 men who framed the Constitution of the United States were professing Christians. 11 of the first 13 colonies required faith in Jesus Christ and the Bible as basic qualifications for holding public office.

In 1788, James Madison, architect of the federal constitution and fourth president, wrote in the Federalist Papers this. We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves to sustain ourselves according to the ten commandments of God.

Daniel Webster in December 22, 1820 wrote, “Let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers brought hither their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political and literary.”

And finally, John Quincy Adams on July 4, 1821 said this. The highest glory of the American Revolution was this. It connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. From the day of the declaration, they the American people were bound by the laws of God, which they all and by the laws of the gospel, which they nearly all acknowledged as the rules of their conduct.

A little over 150 years after this last quote we just read by John Quincy Adams, the United States Supreme Court legalized abortion or that is to say removed the possibility of criminal prosecution of those who would murder unborn infants. We read in the law of God earlier that if a baby was born prematurely due to a struggle between two men, a fine could be levied against the men by the father or by the judges. If however, as the scriptures told us, any further harm occurred, that is to the mother or to the child, then full restitution was required. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, life for life.

There’s established then in this case law of the Old Testament, the full personhood of the unborn, which the Supreme Court now denies. This denial of reality by the highest court of men in our land, is but part and parcel of the rejection of God and his law by the inhabitants of this once great land. This is not without precedence. However, in Isaiah 1, we read this.

How is the faithful city become an harlot? It was full of judgment, righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers. You may paraphrase this verse today and say, America, how the faithful nation has become a harlot. America founded to propagate the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. You now preach the gospel of the messianic state. America, whose liberty bell once peeled out liberty to all the inhabitants of the land. You now murder the orphan and tax the righteous to pay for these murders and restrict liberty for millions. America who once sought the mediation of Jesus Christ for your sins, you now say that we do not sin, yet you murder. America, who restored the sovereign, the creator, you now join the scoffers in the band of the unrighteous in denying him.

Washington DC, the capital, your judges once sought justice through the word of God. They now pollute the land for they are murderers. The wrath of God abides upon you and you do not repent. What happened to the faithful city of Jerusalem? And what’s happened to our faithful country, America?

In Ezekiel 8, you want to turn there for a moment. Ezekiel 8. Ezekiel is sitting with the elders of the house of Judah and God takes him up by the hair of his head as it were takes him to Jerusalem and shows him there abominations that are occurring in the land.

Verse 5, God says to Ezekiel, “Son of man, raise your eyes now toward the north.” So I raised my eyes toward the north and behold to the north of the altar gate was the idol of jealousy at the entrance. So at the north gate we have the idol of jealousy, one of the false gods in the land.

Verse 10, Ezekiel entered and looked. I entered and look and behold every form of creeping thing and beasts and detestable things with all the idols of the house of Israel were carved on the wall all around and standing in front of them were 70 elders. 70 elders of the house of Israel with Jezaniah the son of Shaan standing among them each man with a censer in his hand and the fragrance of the cloud of incense is rising.

Then he said to me, “Son of man, do you see that the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us. The Lord has forsaken the land.’” And he said to me, “Yet you will still see greater abominations which they are committing.”

Then he brought me to the entrance of the gate of the Lord’s house, which was toward the north. And behold, women were weeping there for Tammuz. Tammuz was the god of supposedly the god of vegetation who would die in the winter and resurrect in the springtime. And he said to me, “Do you see this son of man? Yet you will still see greater abominations than these.”

He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar were about 25 men with their backs to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east. And they were prostrating themselves east toward the sun. And he said to me, “Do you see this son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they have committed here that they have filled the land with violence and provoked me repeatedly for behold they are putting the twig to their nose.”

So we read in Ezekiel 8 that the inhabitants of the holy city were now turned to other gods worshiping creeping things abominable beasts worshiping Tammuz the god of vegetation and those in the inner court itself were now worshiping the Lord there with the sun. Our shepherds today in America are in a similar situation. Our alter our pulpits rather are filled with those men who worship the gods of humanism, nature, power and themselves. We have liberation theology which is nothing but disguised Marxism being taught in this country and the pulpits of God’s church.

Let’s bring it a little closer to home though. There are churches that may be considered evangelical or fundamental. Yet, what do those churches do? They deny the law of God. What’s the mark of the beast in the book of Revelation? The mark of the beast is the man who takes his law and replaces God’s law with his law. Mark of the beast was found in the hand and the forehead. We were supposed to put the law of God within our minds and everything we put our hand to do, the law of God was to govern. We replace that law now throughout the churches with man’s law. We thrown out the law of God and so worshiped other gods.

No one forced the churches in America to bow to this beast. They did it willingly. Judgment begins with the house of God. For the house of God is appointed the watchman and oracle of God to warn the nation of sin and the judgment of God. Where were the watchmen in 1973 when the Supreme Court in the Roe v. Wade decision legalized murder of infants? Where were the watchmen when our money was replaced by non-redeemable or counterfeit bills and hence we had the violation of the law against theft? Where were the watchmen when the constitution was turned on its head after the civil war? And where were the watchmen where are the watchmen today when we tax the American people to finance the pagan governments of China and the Soviet Union who then oppressed their people?

Where are the watchmen? They’ve been asleep at the switch and we’ve had a wreck.

Compare a condition in this country to that again in Isaiah 1. We read the first verse how the faithful city has become a harlot. She was full of justice, righteousness once lodged in her but now murderers. It goes on to say your silvers become dross your drink polluted or diluted with water. There’s an excellent tape by Gary North on inflation and he takes these two verses and shows the debasement of currency in the first half of that verse and then the result in inflation of products that occurs as a result of the debasement of currency. That’s certainly what we’ve had in this country.

Your rulers are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe. We’ve had the halls of the Senate and the United States Congress filled with people who take bribes. Congressmen who actually have seduced men into homosexual relationships after getting them drunk and yet those men sit in office still. Everyone loves a bribe and chases after rewards. They do not defend the orphan, nor does the widow’s plea come before them.

I’ve thought in the last few years it says in the scriptures that true and undefiled religion is to take care of orphans and widows in the land. Where are orphans? I think it’s completely proper to think that our orphans lay in the wounds of those women and men and women and mothers and fathers who reject them and who have made them fatherless and motherless through their death sentence they put upon those babies as they move to abort them. These are orphans and our government does not plead the cause of the orphans anymore.

What’s the inevitable result of this rejection of the Lord of the universe in these acts? Remember when we talked about Josiah two weeks ago? God judges sin. That was one of the points we made. Simple point, but it’s always true. God judges sin. We meet this morning to ask for that judgment of God. To acknowledge the sinful state of our nation and our compliance in it and to invoke his wrath. It’s right and proper that we do this.

We’re becoming increasingly a nation of murderers in this country. There’s scarcely a family in this nation that is not touched by the gross sin of abortion or murder of infants, either directly or by way of relatives. The failure of the bystander to cry out against the murderer made the bystander guilty of the crime itself. According to biblical case law, God’s penalty of death lies upon millions literally in our country today and it lay upon the city of harlotry and the prophecies of Isaiah and Ezekiel as well going back to Ezekiel in the 9th chapter.

Now we read in the 9th chapter how this the origins of these sins that we read about in Isaiah were false religion and worship of idols instead of the true God. Go back there now to look at the results of this and what God does about this in Ezekiel 9, starting the last verse of chapter 8.

Therefore, I indeed shall deal in wrath. My eyes shall have no pity, nor shall I spare. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them. Then he cried out in my hearing with a loud voice, saying, “Draw near executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.”

Judgment begins here. Behold, six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his shattering weapon in his hand, and among them was a certain man clothed in linen with a writing case at his loins. And he went in and stood beside the bronze altar. And the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub on which it had been to the threshold of the temple.

And he called to the man clothed in linen at whose loins was the writing case. And the Lord said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, even through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being committed in its midst.” But to the others he said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him and strike. Do not let your eye have pity and do not spare. Utterly slay old men, young men, maidens, little children and women, but do not touch any man on whom is the mark, and you shall start from my sanctuary.”

So they started with the elders who were before the temple. And he said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go out.” Thus they went out and struck down the people in the city. And it came about as they were striking, and I alone was left that I fell on my face and cried out, saying, “Alas, Lord God, thou destroying the whole remnant of Israel by pouring out thy wrath on Jerusalem?”

The judgment of God that we see in this chapter Ezekiel 9 is God’s death sentence against those murderers who had shared in the murder and actually participated in the murder and shared in their silence being executed by God. This is the same thing that we face in this nation unless we repent and then we may be too late.

You notice here that this judgment started at the house of God. He said start with my sanctuary, start with the elders. We’re sitting in the temple of God. Judgment begins with the house of God. This is where the fall occurred from true religion and entered into apostate religion. This is where the downward slide of the evil country began.

How can men who fill the pulpit who are supposed to interpret God’s law for the people and encourage them in obedience to that law and preach forth the judgment of God against the violation of that law? Those men who fill those pulpits now have rejected God’s law. Judge Bahnsen and they’re talking in Seattle last May gave an excellent analogy of how the men with their revisionist perspective of law and the scriptures, the preachers of the word of God have revised the word of God and changed the law therefore by new and novel interpretations of the word of God. In the same way the Supreme Court has taken the United States Constitution and made it a new document by the revision of the interpretation of it.

So we have now our pulpit filled with those men who reject God’s law. The wrath of God will come upon them in all of this though, which is a pretty dark scenario. There’s also a message of mercy. We read in that verse that before the judgment began, God told the man at the writing case there to go out and mark the foreheads of those who wept and cried over the sin of the nation. Those who sigh and cried out against the abomination were marked by God prior to the judgment beginning.

The Hebrew word apparently here mark is tau and in the old form that word to or letter tau rather which is kind of like a t was made with a simple cross sign. So you’ve got God’s messenger going out and marking the remnant with the cross on the forehead prior to the judgment beginning. Surely this should put us in mind of the Passover when the judgment of God came against the idolaters and the unbelievers in Egypt. And yet he had marked the remnant, the believers in him with the blood on the doorpost so that the angel of death would pass over them. That blood of course spoke of the coming Messiah Jesus Christ.

Also this should bring us into mind of the sealing of the elect in Revelation. Revelation 7:2-4 we read, “And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God. And he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads. And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel.

Now, I know there a lot of people that believe that is somehow to do with Jews who are saved during the millennial period. I don’t think that’s the case at all here. I think that book is the book of Revelation is primarily given as an encouragement to those people who are living in an idolatrous and evil age and that God is going to bring his judgment upon them. And we have here divine encouragement from the word of God. The same encouragement that we should get from Ezekiel. But the remnant is marked prior to that justice judgment of God coming upon the nation.

When we interpret things in novel ways such as looking at 144,000 who were saved during the millennium we rip away the encouragement of God that book is intended to give us that sealing is symbolic of the sealing of the elect or the faithful remnant whenever tribulation issues forth from God for judgment of sin. This should be a great encouragement to us as we look at the future of this nation and of our families and see the wrath of God inevitably looming ahead. For those of us with wives, children, loved ones, please think on this sealing of the faithful as we read of the wrath of God visited upon the unrepentant lay hold of it refer to it often.

Finally in Ezekiel 16 there’s a story there of a baby I don’t know if it was aborted or not might have been in any event it was left for dead as soon as it was born the parents are singled out as wicked a Hittite and an Amorite and they left the child in a field to die himself saw that child love dying polluted in its own blood dying and through sheer grace and mercy brought about the health of the baby and nursed baby back to health and caused the baby to grow that baby the word of God tells us was the nation of Israel God’s covenant people us his church that God’s had mercy on having in recipients of God’s tender love for the orphan for those who are cast off by the parents let us do whatever is in our power to reach out for those orphans in our land who yet in the womb have been forsaken by their parents and given a death sentence.

May God bring his wrath upon those who will not move to help these orphans and who rather take money to put them to death.

Why don’t we have a short time of prayer now and well it can be a long time as far as I’m concerned but anybody wants to pray why don’t you pray and then after the prayer time we’ll have the giving of the benediction. I will close at the end of prayer time.

Father, we know that before we could this winner from someone else’s eye. We have to read the law from our own eye. Pray that each of us will inform ourselves more to your word, your law and get our own act together and so doing enable ourselves to call attention to the evils around us. Help us to live lives that are blameless before you mercy. Our heavenly father pray that you will look upon me When we say that we repent of the sins of this nation in our own, you can determine whether it’s merely an exercise language or whether it does come from a repented heart broken in spirit. You told us that a broken and contrite heart is more desirable in your sight than sacrifice.

We thank you for your holy law, your just law, praise you for making it prosper for us, born in sin, bent toward be cleansed from that sin to the shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is an awful thing. Transgression of your law that we face today in our nation. We are murderers. Lord, we acknowledge and I acknowledge it and the promoter of that kind of a situation perhaps not directly by failing to do that which you commanded us to be obedient to every word which you given to us.

We pray Lord forgive us mercy. Not that we deserve it. We have no claim except the covenant that you make. So we call on the name of Jesus Christ and his blood cleans us. We pray Lord that through the Holy Spirit we’ll be strengthened to do those things which are meek and proper in your eyes. Bring this off a mighty God.

I often think of how I’m negligent in praying and talking to others about this horrible sin of murder. Lord, one thing that comes to my mind is that I have been a believer in you. Abortion has been legal. While I was yet in my sins and while I was yet hating you, Father, abortion was legal. And it seems that it’s hard for me to get a grasp on what is actually happening, what is actually taking place in this country that is worse than the Holocaust that was Nazi Germany. So, Father, I ask for forgiveness that I pray that you would make me sensitive to these sins, more sensitive to the direction and guidance of your Holy Spirit as he brings me into situations and contact with people that might be able to proclaim the law of God, showing them that sin is wrong, that sin will bring judgment, but righteousness will bring life and happiness.

Father, I thank you that we could have this message this morning. Father, it’s a hard message. No one likes to hear about sin and death, but Father, it’s true. Because your word proclaims that all those who sin against you love death. Father we pray repent that we might not love death. Father we would love life and walk in the life as you are. Proclaim your whole counsel and live your counsel in and through our lives in the workplace and in our home and in the church. We ask for your grace to perform in Christ.