Looking up the word abortions in thedictionary, we find that the definition means an act of miscarrying, orproducing young before the natural time, or before the fetus is perfectlyformed: called criminal abortion when unlawful.
It seems that many people are concernedabout this problem saying that it's murder of an unborn child. I would say thatany person in their right mind could not possibly condone the act of abortion,but I am wondering why there are so few today that are concerned about theabortions being committed in the spiritual realm. Would you believe it friend,if I told you that abortions can be committed in the spiritual as well as thephysical realm?
Reading in the third chapter of the book of St. John, we find Jesus telling Nicodemus that except a man be bornagain he could not see nor enter into the kingdom of God. Today's version ofthe new birth as taught today by clergymen is in reality a spiritual version ofan abortion in the same manner as in the physical abortion.
Anytime a physical child is brought forthbefore it has been fully developed, then that child has been what is calledbrought forth by abortion. The same would be true in the spiritual realm. Ifyou have been led to believe that you have been born again, but have notundergone the true process of it as the word of God reveals it, then you are ina spiritual sense called an aborted spiritual child.
Did you know my friend, that the word ofGod reveals that there are two types of children, one being the children of Godand the other being the children of the devil? If you will read the Bible youwill find out that it reveals that the children of God are born and broughtforth by the word of God, which is truth, and also called the incorruptibleseed, and the children of the devil are born and brought forth by thecorruptible seed which is the seed word of error.
If you are one brought forth by thecorruptible seed then you are the same as an aborted child that was broughtforth before its time. I can pretty well imagine what a child would look likethat has been aborted from its mother's womb before the allotted time hadelapsed.
The bringing forth of the fetus before ithas been perfectly formed will bring into existence an unsightly monstrositythat cannot possibly live and develope into the creation that it was intendedto become. If a person claims to be a born again child of God, but has not wentthrough the spiritual process of it, then they are what Jesus described in thegospel of Matthew chapter twenty-three. In Matthew23:15 Jesus said to the scribes andPharisees and the hypocrites these very words, "Woeunto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land tomake one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child ofhell than yourselves."
A proselyte is a person who has beenconverted from one religion, opinion, or party to another. What this simplymeans is for a person to be converted to a false doctrine instead of the truth.Any teaching that is not in accord with the truth of God's word will bring intoexistence a child of death. An aborted physical child is brought into thisworld as a child of death that can't possibly live, because it has beenseperated from it's life giving source, which was the womb of its mother.
Applying these facts to the spiritualrealm, we can say that a person who is fed from another doctrine other than thetruth of God's word, which is Christ the true and living bread, then thatindividual will die spiritually and become a child of death just like aphysical child taken from its mother's womb before its time. The word of Godtells us in the fifteenth chapterof John that Christ isthe vine and we are the branches. The branch can only be nurished and bringforth fruit by staying in the vine, but if the branch fails to bear fruit, thenthat branch will be taken out of the vine to be cast out and burned. The falseteachings in the world today will not cause a person to grow into spiritualmaturity, because a false teaching will sear the conscience and you will speaklies in hypocrisy.
The teaching in the religious world todayis saying that a person becomes a born again child of God at the moment theyconfess belief on Christ as their own personal Lord and Saviour. To beleivethis teaching will cut you off from the knowledge of the truth that the gospelcontains and you can not grow and come to the fulness of Christ simply becauseyou have been taught that you became a new creature in Christ in a moments timewhen you believed on Christ, accepting him as your Saviour.
How can you possibly grow and come to thefulness of Christ if you think and believe that you became a new creation whenyou accepted Christ as your Saviour? A false teaching will cut you away fromChrist in the same way that a medical doctor will perform an abortion on awoman with child. The child that was conceived in the womb of its mother is notgiven the proper amount of time for it to develope and grow into a perfectly developedbeing. This cuts its life short and it will die when it is brought forth intothe world.
If you fail to continue on in the word ofGod for the knowledge of the truth and obey it, then you will, like thephysical child die, and you will eventually end up being cast into a lake offire to be burned.
Today's teaching on the subject of the newbirth is said to be a work performed on an individual in a split second oftime. If this belief is not scriptural (of which it is not), then all whoaccept this doctrine is in reality a spiritual aborted child that has not beenfully developed and will die a spiritual death and Christ will absolutelyprofit you nothing. God's word reveals that a true born again child of Godgrows into a fully developed son of God in the same manner as does a physicalchild. When a physical child is born from their mother's womb, this does notend the complete process of the birth. A child born from their mother's wombmay be perfect in creation, but growth is not complete until the child reachesmaturity or full development. The same is true with a spiritual child. If youbelieve that you became a new creation in Christ at the moment you acceptedChrist as your own personal Lord and Saviour like ministers are teaching today,how then can you possibly grow in grace and the knowledge of our Lord andSaviour Jesus Christ like God's word tells us to do?
We are told in Ephesians 4:8-13that Christ gave the five gifts of the ministry so that we could be perfectedand come to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God,unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. Since God's wordreveals that the ministry is given to perfect the saints, how then did a personbecome a new creature in Christ apart from receiving and obeying the revealedtruth of the gospel in its entirety?
We are told by the apostle Peter to desirethe sincere milk of the word so that we can grow thereby. Peter tells us todesire God's word in the same way that a new born baby desires the milk fromthe breast of their mother. A babe in Christ is a person that has not grown tothe fulness and stature of Christ. To grow to the fulness and stature of Christis coming to the position that God's word calls being "in Christ."
False teachings today are saying that aperson becomes a new creation in Christ when they accept Christ as Lord andSaviour, but according to God's word of truth we grow into the fulness andstature of Christ in a daily process. A babe in Christ is not this new creationwhere old things have passed away and all things having become new, because ababe is not fully developed yet. The fully developed position is the mark ofthe prize of the high calling in Christ Jesus......