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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on January 2, 2012
The Book of Ecclesiastes is a summation of a life lived in vain but ultimately knew his folly and got his mind back. Solomon said, “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die…” Ecclesiastes 3:1-2, NKJV
According to GOD, we have a right to LIFE.
In God’s own time and the season He chooses is when our lives are determined and purposed – whether you call Him God or not. The reason I say that is because way too many people ‘believe’ one thing or another whether it’s truth or not. Truth is not a matter of opinion, just a matter of acceptance.
So, let me say it again, “In God’s own time and the season He chooses is when our lives are determined and purposed.”
People love to hear themselves talk. They say things that have no meaning; no true determination of anything other than the vanity of their abstract way of thinking about Life to others. As I mentioned earlier, anything other than truth is opinion, or vain interpretation and utterance.
Being rather outspoken of things that the world deems circumspect, I am smart enough to check my sources…namely the Word of God, not worldly publications or pious lackadaisical ‘spiritual’ leaders. The subject of Life and the right to live it is plainly explained to all of us ignorant bible-thumpin’ Christians in the Bible – this isn’t rocket science, the big bang theory or even the theory of evolution…just plain truth straight from the mouth and heart of GOD.
My right to cross the street supersedes the right to LIFE. The unborn take a back seat to the unemployables occupying parks for free on my dime. The unborn die every day without so much of a whimper from the general public but people complain out loud about gas prices. Where have our sensibilities gone?
A time to be born, and a time to die…determined by GOD, as it was always supposed to be. Today, about 4000 unborn babies died from abortion. And it never made the news.
The Church and the United States of America needs to get their mind back and get back to the basics of human LIFE and fundamental necessity, as GOD meant it to be. We are a people that have lost their way but we can get our mind back, just as Solomon did….let’s start with the right to LIFE and the LIBERTY to live it.
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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on December 4, 2011
Much of the American public believes that the issue of Life is a matter of opinion, not fact. Too many people see Life as a choice to be born or not, whether because of health reasons, financial circumstances, etc. The fact remains that Life is not by accident or circumstance, but ordained by One mightier than you or me.
We cannot change the color of the sky to suit us, then how is it we think we have the audacity to assign Life to those we think are more worthy and death to those who are not?
The humanistic world does not believe in God, but knows that there is a god-like ethereal being that they can call on when they need a new house or car; they suppose that because they do not worship or ‘believe’ in God or a god out loud that their deeds done in secret are not being remembered, accounted or even considered. How great is the chasm between the truth and an assumed belief to benefit yourself.
God is Lord of all, whether you believe in him or not.
All this being said, Life and death are haphazardly thought of because there is no outward sign of belief in God – an abortion is a blessing to an out of work single woman; euthanasia is prescribed because the quality of Life is dictated by well meaning family members that don’t want their loved one to suffer. I would say that the Life decisions they make are an advantage to themselves, not the person in need. In any event, someone dies.
Let me be the first to let you know that no one needs or wants your God-less opinion or assumption of what you think others need to have value and quality of Life.
To summarize: We don’t need a bunch of well meaning God haters to make laws that govern when we can and cannot have Life. The fact is that abortion and euthanasia is murder, not quality control.
The question is, “…If God is for us, who can be against us?” Turns out just about everyone who does not believe that Life has been and is foreordained before the foundations of this world.
Each one of us has a separate purpose and function; no one is left out, “For there is no partiality with God”, AND, “Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.”
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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on November 10, 2011
Election Day has come and gone and sadly, unborn Life is still at risk. Mississippi, which has some of the strictest anti-abortion law in the United States struck down the Personhood Amendment. Fingers are getting pointed toward who dropped the ball but the reality is this: The Church failed.
I get lambasted (off-handedly, I might add) by Personhood people because I support the Heartbeat Bill, which is incremental law. I kind of get why they are holding out for Personhood; we all want to see all unborn Life protected at every stage from conception. But what this last election in Mississippi has proven is that incremental law works, going for the gold does not.
The differences are clear – the Heartbeat Bill will protect life from a detectable heartbeat until birth. I know that means that not all unborn Life is protected (yet), but if you bear with me (and some of you have, thank you very much) you’ll understand why this bill would have prevailed in Mississippi. Personhood, if INTERPRETED incorrectly, which it was, will fail every time because according to Planned Parenthood who spearheaded the attack, it will impede a woman’s right to contraception and in vitro fertilization.
What did Planned Parenthood do? They went after the Church and it worked.
First, I don’t care what you believe…unless it’s coming straight from the Bible. In other words, just because you couldn’t have children does not mean you manipulate the hand of God to get what you want with in vitro fertilization. That is not how the God of the Bible works. There is no gray area; He’s God, you’re not. Instead of spending tens of thousands of dollars on something God hates, why not adopt children that are here and need you NOW?
Second, contraception has never been sanctified by the Church at large or God. It was accepted as a dismal fact that women in the Church will use contraception anyway and Pastors could not change it no matter how hard they preach and teach against it. Ladies, you cannot control the hand God. Life was meant to glorify Him, not get around Him.
Third, PRIDE. Planned Parenthood hit you where you are weak…your own pitiful ego.
PRIDE.
“These six things the LORD hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.” Proverbs 6:16-19, NKJV
Christian woman were targeted by Planned Parenthood and they caved. I truly have to wonder if that woman is a Christian if they would actually consider in vitro and stand in the middle of the abortion fight not knowing where to turn.
Personhood was played well – a nice black eye for the Church. The innocent blood of unborn Life will be on the hands of Christian women that believe the lie that they can do what God does. You don’t believe in abortion? Neither does God. But you voted against it anyway.
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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on October 13, 2011
Part 1 #esthermovement
Esther was orphaned and adopted by her cousin Mordecai and became Queen…a Queen of the greatest empire on the earth at that time. That doesn’t come by accident. She was chosen by God to help her people and her opposition was great. She knew she could die but her purpose was greater than her fear of death. 
“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.” Esther 4:16, ESV
Because of Queen Esther, the Jewish people were not exterminated. God showed her favor through King Ahasuerus and God used the Queen to fulfill the lineage to Jesus Christ. The story of Esther is one of grace and favor, but it doesn’t go without saying that she had a heart for God and a heart for her people.
There are no orphans of God, we are all accounted for – Jesus said, “But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.”
In the Prolife movement, I am Esther, you are Esther. We seek to free the children of Israel – all unborn children – every day through prayer, supplication and legislation.
“For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?” Esther 8:6, ESV
We are still trying to save the children of Israel, just like Esther, one unborn child at a time. Just as Haman in the Book of Esther sought to exterminate the Jews, today through the sin of abortion Haman still seeks our children, and he’s succeeding.
Queen Esther was victorious saving the children of Israel but we are still fighting the fight of abortion trying to save our unborn children. Women have usurped the authority of God to take command of their bodies:
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, ESV
We are not our own, our bodies are not our own. We are God’s…and so is every unborn child, without exception. Be an Esther, and save our children.
Posted in abortion, Book of Esther, God, Jesus Christ, pro-life, ProLife, Right to Life, sanctity of life, sin, unborn | Tagged: abortion agenda, bible, Christian, God, Heartbeat Bill, Jesus Christ, pro-life, Salvation, The Church | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on January 25, 2011
Part 2
A recent article from David Gushee, a professor of Christian ethics, wrote (in part) these three points regarding American Culture, the law and abortion:
- The collapse of any cultural assumption that sex is to be reserved for marriage and that marriage is the best context in which to conceive and raise children,
- The devolution of male-female relationships from a striving for a mutual lifetime covenant to short-term use of one another for individual sexual and emotional needs,
- The overall transition from a focus on doing what is right to an emphasis on my rights.
Cultural problems cannot be solved through legislation; these issues need to be addressed at home and in the Church…“but the legal struggle is actually a distraction from the unresolved cultural and moral issues that have created it.” I could not agree more.
But who is at fault? How did this nation get this demoralized? When you take God out of the equation, you have nothing. So many things brought us here, such as teaching evolution, taking prayer out of school, and women working outside of the home.
Yes, I said it: Women working outside of the home. The biblical God-given role for women has been treated as an anomaly, almost a thing to be laughed at. But look at the result – more and more children out of wedlock, abortion is ‘normal’, kids rule the home, some women don’t know who the father of their child or children is. Women got liberated alright, liberated of having a husband, a father for their children…essentially the tail is wagging the dog.
Truly, this desensitizing of America has become an entitlement issue of the hugest magnitude. Women are being raised to be ‘I’m every woman’ instead of learning how to be a wife and mother. I, too, was a victim of this. The world has made women a dehumanized commodity instead of the beautiful creation that God made her to be for her husband.
Women need to liberate themselves from this filthy world we live in and let God be God in our lives. He alone brings Glory to sufferings and afflictions.
“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”
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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on January 14, 2011
Does religion or religious affiliation have anything to do with abortion? Yes and No.
Understanding Post Abortive women is an on-the-job learning experience, unfortunately. A Post Abortive woman/counselor wrote, “She said she had supported the right of a woman to obtain an abortion, but had grown up in a Christian family and never thought she would have one herself.” I wish I could say I never heard that song before, but I have – in my own life. Over half of Post Abortive women considered themselves Christian at the time of their abortion, and many more were raised in a ‘Christian’ home (catholic, main-line protestant, evangelical, etc) but had negated or denied their faith:
“Women identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4% of all abortions in the U.S.; Catholic women account for 31.3%, Jewish women account for 1.3%, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7% of all abortions. 18% of all abortions are performed on women who identify themselves as “Born-again/Evangelical” – AbortionNo.org.
Women that abort identify themselves as having a form of religion either in their lives at the time or when they were growing up. Evidently, whatever their affiliation is, their church has not professed what the Bible teaches regarding killing or harming another person, whether that person is born or not yet born. There is a lull and even a complete lax in teachings regarding LIFE – all LIFE. Churches today consider teaching against abortion and homosexuality archaic and even blasphemous. Obviously these new church leaders are reading the newspapers and novels, not the Bible.
Today, what the moderate prolifer needs to remember is what Jesus said near the end of His own life, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”. The ‘neighbor’ is everyone, born and not yet born – that being said is it okay to abort anyone if you are to love your ‘neighbor’?
God is not a respecter of persons (Acts 10:34); He shows no partiality to anyone; all LIFE is valid and precious.
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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on January 13, 2011
Don’t just drink the milk, eat the Meat.
I was perusing other blogs today and came across a comment made to a prolifer: How can you be prolife if you eat meat? As stupid as I think that statement was, to some it is a valid question. Let me try to explain:
“So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’”
Part of the ‘abortion argument’ is clear in the above Scripture – we are made, created, in the image of God, not of anyone or anything else. God alone in His perfect Will created every human being to be born.
At any rate, God made man and woman in His own image and gave them (us) authority over all animals for food and covering, even after their disobedience:
“Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.”
God sacrificed animals to give covering with their skins to Adam and Eve. The argument is weak for a prolifer to question whether or not to eat the meat of an animal. What Scripture does say is that we cannot harm or murder each other, “Thou shalt not kill”, which is the other part of the ‘abortion argument’: We are made in His image and we are not to kill each other – or abort another for any reason.
Part of the conclusion is this: being a moderate prolifer is not helping anyone, only solidifying the need for ardent Prolifers that know LIFE is created by God and thus up to Him to take away, not anyone else. The moderate prolifer has to get from the milk of Scripture to the meat of it to understand the fullness of the Gospel regarding the complete message of LIFE.
Posted in bible, Church, Genesis, God, Jesus Christ, life, moderate prolife, pro-life activist, unborn | Tagged: abortion agenda, bible, Christian, God, Jesus Christ, moderate, pro-life, The Church | 1 Comment »
Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on August 17, 2010
Absolutely every question you have, every life choice you’ll make is addressed in the Word of God. The dilemma of decisions and choices are addressed specifically with the story of Saul and David. Decisions and choices are better made with prayer and patience. In other words, be careful what you ask and pray for…you might just get it. The story of David and Saul is a story of making right decisions and listening to God. Telling God what to do does no one any good but earnest prayer makes a way for God to speak to you.
‘And the LORD said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them’ (ref: 1Samuel 8:7).
Israel demanded a king…demanded. God told Samuel that the people, His beloved Israel, have rejected Him, they would rather have a king to judge and rule them. It’s easy enough to understand, Israel didn’t want the condemnation of God any longer. They somehow thought they could outrun God by having a man rule them. God told the people through Samuel what would happen! It would be certain that Israel’s choice to have a man rule them would be a disaster. The people chose Saul; God chose David. Had Israel been patient they wouldn’t have had to deal with all the years of Saul. What the people didn’t realize is that those years wasted on Saul’s rule were actually a time of preparation for the King that God had chosen. The people of Israel had to be prepared for what God had for them. (ref: 1Samuel 8:7-22)
So much of our lives on this earth would have been spared of so much grief if we would have petitioned the Lord and waited for His answer. How many lives could have been spared if men and women understood what fruit their ‘choice’ would bear in the future? The people wanted Saul; he was the ungodly choice. God chose David because He knows what’s best for us. Sin is a decision made to either be equal to God or to totally reject Him.
Abortion is not a choice; it’s an abomination that was brought about because sinful men and women couldn’t stand the conviction of God – the obvious result of an ungodly relationship, an innocent child. But notice the end of the David and Saul story, God had MERCY on Israel to give them David as king. After so much rebellion from His chosen people He still loved them enough to give them the right choice, His choice. For all of my Post Abortive friends, know that He has Mercy and has forgiven you! He has a better decision/choice for you….Life, abundantly.
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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on June 8, 2010
What is Life? Scientists root around ancient burial grounds, archeological digs and other planets scouting around for Life. And not just dinosaurs….microscopic, sometimes single cell bits of Life. Why? These people spend the better part of their lives looking for Life through dirt and dust that they overlook the slaughter going on every day in abortion clinics. Most scientists believe in the theory of evolution and that life can be spared – survival of the fittest, it seems. A fossil gets more respect than an unborn child.
Sometimes I’m so discouraged…so discouraged that I find myself in intercessory prayer for those that lost and those that don’t care. God gives me the solace that nothing else can.
Through many years of off and on alcohol abuse – a way I thought I could cope – I believed (or secretly hoped) the lie that there was never a baby. As I research the phenomenon of Life, I reel at the fact that at least half of this world still believes that Life does not begin at conception. How can that happen while doctors implant embryos into barren women? It’s only a baby when it suits you or when you pay for it?
There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think about a child lost. I am certainly not alone. The Bible speaks of how Jesus came that we may have abundant Life*, not Life stolen from us. He healed all and raised the dead…how can anyone justify the death of an unborn child when Jesus Himself gave the commandment to love one another**?
Beloved, I wish the unbeliever Life; I pray salvation for all that tarry. Life is more important than what is not sanctified by God. The world is not your Comforter; it is your certain death.
The concept of Life comes with the knowledge of the One that died for YOU.
*John 10:10, **1John 3:23
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Posted by Rev. K.H. Marple on December 1, 2009
Or, If you don’t know…SHUT UP, part 2.
Conjecture con⋅jec⋅ture - [kuhn-jek-cher] ; noun
- the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof.
- an opinion or theory so formed or expressed; guess; speculation.
- Obsolete. the interpretation of signs or omens.
No one will take the church seriously if we, as the Body of Christ, cannot walk and talk the Word of God AS IT IS WRITTEN.
The simplicity of the Bible is blown so far out of context that it has become conjecture at best. It’s hard to blame the brand new Christian or the post modern Christian for being completely unsanctified when no one has the guts to tell them the truth about the Bible and what it means. Why is the Church the farthest away from the ‘truth’?
The Bible is the bible is the bible. It can never change just as God can never change. But we have people like Eugene Peterson that think they have an edge on the truth, as they see it. God is not pleased. The Bible is a story of Redemption, not a social mix of half-truths to soothe the savage beast. The Message ‘Bible’ has a message: don’t worry, be happy.
This is what I’m getting at: Because of pure conjecture on Man’s part, we have a watered down gospel preached world-wide that does not base itself on the ORIGINAL Word of God which puts the ‘believer’ in a place of pseudo-Christianity. “There is therefore now no condemnation*” has been put to the test….instead of understanding that it was the sinless death of Jesus that saved us because of our own sin, Christians now utter no condemnation because of a false sense of eternal security to justify very bad behaviour without consequence.
It’s kind of like going to a friend’s house that has ‘cool’ parents…no consequence.
You can’t tell this Reverend that it’s okay to drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes. You can’t tell me it’s okay to wear clothes too tight or too short. And regardless of how much they say they love each other, same sex ANYTHING is against the Plan of God in every respect**. Men act like women, women act like men. Abortion continues because the Church will NOT stand up and say it is wrong in every case and every circumstance.
No one will take the church seriously if we, as the Body of Christ, cannot walk and talk and walk the Word of God AS IT IS WRITTEN.
Suicide is rampant because the world saturates people into believing there is no God and no hope of Eternity, thus no reason to live. True Christians worship and fellowship in spite of the world to bring hope to a suffering people.
*Romans 8:1 says, ‘There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
**1 Corinthians 6:9-10 says, (v9) ‘Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, (v10) Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.’
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My right to cross the street supersedes the right to LIFE. The unborn take a back seat to the unemployables occupying parks for free on my dime. The unborn die every day without so much of a whimper from the general public but people complain out loud about gas prices. Where have our sensibilities gone?
