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Jim Kopp Still Needs To Confess by Neal Horsley ( I’m
looking as hard as I can and I see no construction where the babies scheduled
to be butchered end up being served best by that decision. In fact I see just the opposite. From
where I stand, Jim Kopp’s decision looks like just one more in a horribly
long line of priority decisions that have been made by Christians in the The
decision looks like this: We start out with every intention to do what is necessary
to abolish legalized abortion, but then, lo and behold, before we know it, in
one way or another, we find ourselves in a situation where we have to balance
our own personal convenience and/or temporary needs of the flesh (or the
similar needs of born people who are important to us) against the actual
physical existence of unborn babies scheduled to be butchered because of
legalized abortion. Inevitably, as has
happened ad nauseum for three decades, faced with
the responsibility to balance the personal convenience of born people with
the need for life of unborn babies, we consistently choose convenience of the
self over the very lives of the babies. I
understand why we do those things. I
am not oblivious to the commands of the flesh and know full well the awesome
power the flesh has to command obedience.
But I also know that to serve the flesh and raise our own personal
convenience to a value higher than the very lives of unborn babies is
selfishness. Either we define such
activities as selfishness or selfishness becomes synonymous with altruism and
altruism becomes exactly equivalent to the most debased and self-centered,
egocentric, self-worship and will-worship.
Under such Orwellian newspeak, selfishness as a distinct sin
disappears from either language or logic or reason. It
is obvious to me that Satan is doing everything in his power to condition
Christians to redefine selfishness so that everyone will believe it is “love”
to raise the convenience of the individual above the very lives of other
people the individual decides to believe have no right to be called
people. At least today I still have
the grace to resist him. My
point is not to say Jim Kopp can be expected to do different than he is
doing: after all anyone taken into captivity and given enough time and
“massaged” in just the right way can be broken and made to do anything their
captors will them to do. No I am
simply saying Jim Kopp should confess as sin his decision to abandon the
court room stage upon which the plight of the unborn could have been spelled
out once again in bold and living color almost as clear as the blood on
Barnett Slepian’s kitchen floor. At least then, even as Jim Kopp does that
which contradicts everything that he used his life to accomplish and everything
he used to justify inserting hot lead into the bodies of abortionists, he
will at least not compound the confusion by pretending he is still
implementing the priority structure he once represented and embodied. In other words, his confession will let the
world see that Jim Kopp, the defender of unborn babies, has been broken to
accept the sinful priority structure of the world as his own. To those who are in Christ Jesus, if we
confess our sin, he is faithful and just to forgive our sin and cleanse us
from all unrighteousness. For those in
sin, without that confession, the Holy Spirit is quenched and leaves the
individual outside the Body of Christ. This article will show
you what the confession that restores access to the Holy Spirit of God looks
like. |