December 24, 2012 God's Word is Life

God’s Word is Life 2 Kings 23: 10 He desecrated Topheth, which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so no one could use it to sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech. OFTENTIMES you read in the Bible of the worship of Baal and Molech and how these gods are detestable in the sight of the Lord. Too often, it’s easy to dismiss that view as a God-view. How bad can it be? This scripture tells you on bad it can be. Unbelievably, people of Jewish descent who knew of their wondrous God of life were convinced to kill a child—usually their oldest son—in a sacrificial worship of the evil. What happened in Israel and Judah to turn the hearts of God’s people so violently against life and to death? The main thing that happened is that God’s people became totally ignorant of his Word. His Law had been “lost” in the Temple. Generation after generation had failed to tell of God’s glorious deeds of deliverance for his people and the conquest of the very land in which they lived. God’s people had forgotten the blessings he had promised them and turned to the curses of the devil. Sadly we have the same problem today. You might say, “No one kills their son in the fire.” But stop to think that since Roe vs. Wade in 1973, 54,559,615 children have been killed by the abortionists in the United States. And we grievously mourn the death of 20 children in Connecticut, but who is mourning the 2,716–and counting—uunborn children who died in America today? What has happened? Oh, that’s right; we’ve ignored God’s Word. It’s True! When you hear, read and learn God’s Word, you will find life.