God has unspeakable zeal for His own glory and honor. All of His glorious attributes, including His love and holiness, incline Him to protect the unborn. He is certainly not cold or indifferent about defending the unborn, and is absolutely devoted to defending these helpless, little ones. We must experience a similar compassionate zeal for their protection; our joy in life—under these intolerable circumstances—and God’s glory, are inseparably connected to it.  

It is virtually impossible to overstate the importance of maintaining the eternal and immutable principles of the Moral Law, especially when the government opposes these principles. The most powerful and effective weapon in the world with which to fight the lethal force of abortion, and every other evil in the world, is the particular aspect of God’s word that exposes and opposes this evil; in this case, the moral duty to resist lethal force with force. To this end, we must buy truth at all cost and sell it at none. Though the entire world may deny and dash itself against the defensive duties of the Moral Law, this aspect of God’s word abides forever and will prevail against all opposition.  

Upholding this principle of the Moral Law is essential to maintaining a consistent and credible pro-life position. It is obviously and blatantly inconsistent to assert that the unborn are fully human but deny that they should be defended with the means necessary—like other humans. If you condone defending born children, you should not condemn defending the unborn.  Those who are pro-life should either stop defending born children or start defending the unborn.  

The faith that abortion is murder is dead unless it is put to work by upholding the duty to resist this murderous force with force. How can you show your faith that abortion is murder as long as you neglect the duty to intervene in defense of these children? You believe the unborn are human. You do well; many who support abortion also believe this, but they don't act like it.  "But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?” (James 2:20).  

Thus, the issues at stake involve much more than the lives of millions of unborn children; our response to the immediate needs of our neighbors demonstrates the difference between biblical Christianity, which requires costly repentance, and the devil's counterfeit that allows people to continue in sin. (Men will profess faith in all sorts of religions so long as they may live as they please, and they are not required to take up their cross and follow Christ.)  


If the message being proclaimed does not require people to love their neighbors as themselves, and repent of neglecting this duty, that message falls far short of the teaching and examples of both Christ and the apostles (they plotted to put Christ to death because He healed on the Sabbath , and the apostles were persecuted for illegally ministering to their neighbors (Acts 5: 12-42]). You cannot be a true Christian and persist in any sin, especially the gross neglect of your neighbors. Nor can you be a faithful teacher, under these circumstances, unless you are willing to call people to repent of neglecting their unborn neighbors. Any teacher who will not uphold the inalienable duty to love God with all the heart, and one's neighbor as himself, is guilty of gross omission.  

If your brand of Christianity allows you to conform to popular opinion, and thereby avoid great sacrifice, when the government has forbidden people to save their neighbor's souls, or their lives, you have adopted a cross-less and false religion that contradicts the teachings of Christ—"If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.  For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for my sake shall find it” (Matthew 17:24-25). Such a corrupt religion may be popular and easy to swallow but it renders Christians tasteless and lukewarm—fit for nothing but to be spewed out and washed down the drain.