From Exodus 1:15-22 / This is not about politics.

vs. 17: “But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.”

No, America’s abortion laws are not mandatory as that in our text today was. I do not want to make an unfair comparison. Yet, there is a fundamental, abiding principle undergirding what was happening in Egypt, and what is happening today in America. This cannot be overlooked.

Let us be absolutely clear here, abortion and infanticide can only exist where there is no fear of God.

Let that sink in.

This is not a legal issue.

It is not a personal issue.

It is not a women’s rights issue.

It is not a political issue.

It is not a medical issue.

It is not even a bare moral issue – thought is touches on all of these areas.

At the bottom, at the very root, it is a spiritual issue. One Scripture simply casts as – godlessness.

Godlessness.

Not that all who support these horrific practices deny God exists. But in the reality that in fact, they do what they do before the face of God, with no fear that they will be judged for it by Him in due time.

There is no true fear of God.

Where there is no fear of God, no regard for the truth revealed in His Word regarding the sanctity of human life – expedience and personal preference rule; even behind the curtain of the law.

Abortion and infanticide can only be curbed and stopped when men and women fear God as their Creator, Lord and Judge: Irrespective of fluctuating cultural movements for or against.

We work and cry out for laws to prevent these, in spite of whether or not others share that view, so as to save the lives of the murdered, and to spare the staining of the hands of their murders with blood. We care for both.

But make no mistake – no fear of God is the real issue. One solved only through the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the transforming power of His Spirit.